Indeterminacy: Waste, Value, and the Imagination (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology #7)
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- Synopsis
- What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to states of despair and alienation. Drawing upon ethnographic research about a wide variety of contexts, the chapters here explore how indeterminacy is created and experienced in relationship to projects of classification and progress.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781789200102
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781785339974, 9781789207552, 9781789200096
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 10/01/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Catherine Alexander, Andrew Sanchez
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Catherine Alexander
- Edited by:
- Andrew Sanchez
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