Indeterminacy : Waste, Value, and the Imagination.

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alexander, Catherine
Other Authors: Sanchez, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2018.
Series:WYSE Series in Social Anthropology Ser.
Subjects:
Social evolution.
Marginiality, Social.
Waste products > Social aspects.
Determinism.
Civilization, Modern > Social aspects.
Cultural Evolution
Évolution sociale.
Déchets > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Civilization, Modern > Social aspects
Social evolution
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 pages)
ISBN:9781789200102
1789200105

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