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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • 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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