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Indeterminacy : Waste, Value, and the Imagination.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, Catherine
Otros Autores: Sanchez, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2018.
Colección:WYSE Series in Social Anthropology Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro; Indeterminacy; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction. The Values of Indeterminacy; Chapter 1. Kept in Suspense; Chapter 2. Experiments in Living; Chapter 3. The Production of Indeterminacy; Chapter 4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance; Chapter 5. Waste People/Value Producers; Chapter 6. Indeterminate Classifications; Chapter 7. The Politics of Indeterminacy; Epilogue. Indeterminancy; Index. 
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