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Divinization and Technology
The Political Anthropology of Subversion
Av Agnes Horvath, Camil Francisc Roman m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and uncovering some of its particular effects on human existence, from prehistory until the contemporary age. Subversion is often romanticized as a means …
Power, Legitimacy and the Public Sphere
The Iranian Ta’ziyeh Theatre Ritual
Av Amin Isaloo
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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A ground-breaking study of political transformations in non-Western societies, this book applies anthropological, sociological and political concepts to the recent history of Iran to explore the role played by a ritual theatrical performance (Ta’ziyeh) and its symbols on the construction of public …
Permanent Liminality and Modernity
Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels
Häftad, 2019
862 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality. Developing the view that with the theatre playing a central role, the …
Home: The Foundations of Belonging
Häftad, 2019
742 kr
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Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and ‘taking back control’. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of …
Inhabiting Liminal Spaces
Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of rule-bending take shape in Rome today. Adopting a multiscalar and transdisciplinary approach, it unpacks how gaps and contradictions in institutional rulemaking and …
Spectacle of Critique
From Philosophy to Cacophony
Av Tom Boland
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation and denunciation around all political issues. The technique of unmasking ‘power’ or ‘hegemony’ or ‘ideology’ has now been adopted across the political …
Walling, Boundaries and Liminality
A Political Anthropology of Transformations
Av Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Benţa m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice …
Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence
A New Direction in Political Theory
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This book departs from the attempt by political theory to confront the challenges of political life with new concepts, offering instead a mode of thought so far excluded from the canon of political theory: the philosophy of presence. Making the experience of liminality the very centre of thought, …
Technologisation of the Social
A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine
Av Paul O'Connor, Marius Ion Benţa
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of communication to a primary medium of experience and sociality. Some of the most basic human capacities are increasingly being outsourced to machines and we …
Technologisation of the Social
A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine
Av Paul O'Connor, Marius Ion Benţa
Häftad, 2024
691 kr
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In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of communication to a primary medium of experience and sociality. Some of the most basic human capacities are increasingly being outsourced to machines and we …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of …
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author …
Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence
A New Direction in Political Theory
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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This book departs from the attempt by political theory to confront the challenges of political life with new concepts, offering instead a mode of thought so far excluded from the canon of political theory: the philosophy of presence. Making the experience of liminality the very centre of thought, …
Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880 - 1930
Av Cesare Silla
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live in societies that …
Politics with a Human Face
Identity and Experience in Post-Soviet Europe
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
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Politics with a Human Face presents a holistic understanding of identity formation in post-Soviet Europe, arguing that since politics is fundamentally a human affair. In order to adequately understand it, one needs to understand its human side first.Drawing on the thought of Dilthey, Ricoeur and …
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author …
Divinization and Technology
The Political Anthropology of Subversion
Av Agnes Horvath, Camil Francisc Roman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and uncovering some of its particular effects on human existence, from prehistory until the contemporary age. Subversion is often romanticized as a means …
Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters
Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the …
Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters
Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the …
China at a Threshold
Exploring Social Change in Techno-Social Systems
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Once the world’s most technologically advanced civilisation, China is poised to yet again take this mantle, having made incredible technological strides over recent decades; but what does this in fact mean? What will this mean for Chinese society, and what ramifications might it have for the …
Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the ‘trickster’. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of …
Post-Truth Society
A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument …
Post-Truth Society
A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument …
Inhabiting Liminal Spaces
Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of rule-bending take shape in Rome today. Adopting a multiscalar and transdisciplinary approach, it unpacks how gaps and contradictions in institutional rulemaking and …
Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease
Technocratic Mimetism
Av Agnes Horvath, Paul O'Connor
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new normal’. With …
Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease
Technocratic Mimetism
Av Agnes Horvath, Paul O'Connor
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new normal’. With …
Political Anthropology as Method
Inbunden, 2023
2133 kr
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This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects …
Political Anthropology as Method
Häftad, 2023
604 kr
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This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects …
Cold War Sociology
Societies of Distribution
Av Alex Wade
Inbunden, 2026
2512 kr
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This book positions the Cold War as a liminal time and space that holds sway in the second quarter of the 21st century, informing a broad and deep analysis of how contemporary society was – and continues to be – fashioned by the societies of distribution found in Cold War Sociology.As a conflict …
