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UNINA9910346051903321 |
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Saussy Haun <p>Haun Saussy, University of Chicago, USA </p> |
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Are We Comparing Yet? : On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability / Haun Saussy |
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Bielefeld, : Bielefeld University Press, 2019 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Comparison |
Ethics |
History |
Eurocentrism |
Critique |
Literature |
Culture |
General Literature Studies |
Cultural Theory |
Cultural History |
Cultural Studies |
Bielefeld University Press |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 The Problem 7 The Unique, the Comparative and the Competitive 9 Reckoning with the Other 19 The Family of Comparisons 29 The Elasticity of Substitution 39 Negative Privilege 47 Birds of a Feather 63 Noli me tangere 71 Near and Far 81 A Museum Without Walls for Walls Without a Museum 91 Making Room 99 Envoi 109 Acknowledgments 111 |
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Debates about the possibility of an open culture – or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture – often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a proliferation of comparisons.Through a series |
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of case studies in everyday and academic comparison (literature, history, politics, philosophy), Haun Saussy calls out the typical vices of comparison and proposes ways to unseat them. For however much it is abused, distorted, and manipulated, comparison retains an essential link to the idea of justice. |
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UNINA9910346055603321 |
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Heer Barbara <p>Barbara Heer, Universität Basel, Schweiz </p> |
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Cities of Entanglements : Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison / Barbara Heer |
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019 |
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9783732847976 |
3732847977 |
9783837647976 |
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9783839447970 |
3839447976 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (340 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Urban Anthropology |
Johannesburg |
Maputo |
Urban Studies |
Segregation |
Diversity |
Neighbourhood |
Shopping Malls |
Urban Religion |
Africa |
South Africa |
Mozambique |
Enclaves |
Encounter |
Entanglements |
Urbanity |
City |
Ethnology |
Sociology |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Navigating Belonging? 45 Intimate Encounters? 81 A Politics of Loss? 119 A Politics of Proximity? 147 Building Communities? 191 Spaces of Freedom? 221 Closing Remarks 271 Postscript: Entangled Comparers 277 Bibliography 303 |
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How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies. |
»Das Buch ist [...] für all jene Stadtforscher_innen geeignet, die an African urbanism interessiert sind oder nach neuen theoretischen Konzepten als Werkzeuge kritischer Stadtforschung suchen.« |
»The book is an invaluable contribution to urban anthropology and to urban studies in general, and will prove useful more widely across the humanities and social sciences.« |
Besprochen in:ORLIS, 1 (2020)www.kommunalweb.de, 1 (2020) |
»This very well-written book [...] addresses a number of critical questions to both urban studies and anthropology in doing so. This capacity and willingness to engage conventions within the two disciplines makes the book important, highly readable, and valuable to scholars well beyond those interested in the cities of Maputo and Johannesburg.« |
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