Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 181 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Decay
DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Degeneration Social aspects
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Degeneration Political aspects
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Anthropological ethics
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Political culture
;
Social change
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
;
Anthropological ethics
;
Political culture
;
Social change
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Toward an Analytics of Social Decay / Ghassan Hage -- Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay / Violeta Schubert -- Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age / Debra McDougall -- The Dialectic of Construction and Ruination in the Study of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation / Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer -- "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution / Michael Herzfeld -- Decay or Fresh Contact? Exposure, Mixture, and Moral Panic after War's End / Bart Klem -- Seeds of Decay / Fabio Mattioli -- Accelerated Decay in Settler Colonial Australia / Elise Klein -- Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon / Ghassan Hage -- Relational Decay: White Helpers on Australia's Colonial Frontier / Cameo Dalley -- Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System / Tamara Kohn.
Abstract:
"In thirteen sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material forms of decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe."--
Note:
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