Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical ImaginationThis book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms of inequality, injustice and marginalisation. Alter-Politics is concerned with the way anthropological critical writing in particular aims to weave oppositional concerns (anti-politics) with a search for alternatives (alter-politics): alternative economies, alternative modes of inhabiting and relating to the earth, alternative modes of thinking and experiencing otherness. If Alter-Politics privileges alter-politics over oppositional politics, it is not because, as is made clear, the 'alter' moment is more important than the 'anti'. It is because a concern for alter-politics has been less prevalent. The question of 'political passion' is crucial in this conception of the alter-political. For the book argues that it is because radical political passion has been mostly directed towards anti-politics that it has come to dominate over alter-politics. This does not simply mean that political passion needs to be equally directed towards alter-politics. It also means that this passion itself needs to be a radically different kind of political passion once so directed. It is this 'alter-political passion' that Hage strives to create a space for throughout Alter-Politics. |
Contents
Part | |
The critique of crisis and the crisis of critique | |
Critical anthropological thought and the radical political imaginary | |
The Arab social sciences and the two critical traditions | |
Hating Israel in the field | |
The case of Fanon | |
On narcissistic victimhood | |
The unoccupied | |
Towards a critical anthropology | |
Dwelling in the reality of utopian thought | |
Other belongings | |
Notes | |
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Alter-politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination Ghassan Hage No preview available - 2015 |
Alter-politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination Ghassan Hage No preview available - 2015 |
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