Das / Fassin Words and Worlds

A Lexicon for Dark Times
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2147-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

The contributors to Words and Worlds examine the state of politics and the political imaginary within contemporary societies by taking up the everyday words such as democracy, revolution, and populism that we use to understand the political present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, Veena

Fassin, Didier

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: From Words to Worlds / Didier Fassin and Veena Das 1
1. Knowledge / Veena Das 19
2. Democracy / Jan-Werner Müller 39
3. Authority / Banu Bargu 61
4. Belonging / Peter Geschiere 83
5. Toleration / Uday S. Mehta 103
6. Power / Alex De Waal 123
7. War / Julieta Lemaitre 143
8. Revolution / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 166
9. Corruption / Caroline Humphery 185
10. Openness / Todd Sanders and Elizabeth F. Sanders 205
11. Resilience / Jonathan Pugh 225
12. Inequality / Ravi Kanbur 243
13. Crisis / Didier Fassin 261
Bibliography 277
Contributors 299
Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of several books, including Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein.

Didier Fassin is James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Professor to the Annual Chair in Public Health at the Collège de France. He is the author of various books, including Life: A Critical User's Manual.