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"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."--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hage, Ghassan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social change.
Political culture.
Anthropological ethics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Degeneration > Political aspects.
Degeneration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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