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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479963803321

Autore

Jiménez Alberto Corsín

Titolo

An anthropological trompe l'oeil for a common world [[electronic resource] ] : an essay on the economy of knowledge / / by Alberto Corsín Jiménez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn, 2013

ISBN

0-85745-912-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Ethnography, theory, experiment ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

306.092

Soggetti

Anthropology - Philosophy

Political anthropology - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Trompe l'oeil -- pt. II. Common world.

Sommario/riassunto

Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods,' 'the commons' or 'global justice' create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself. Rather than question the politics of adjudication between the big and the small, this book inquires instead into the cultural epistemology fueling the aggrandizement and miniaturization of description itself. Incorporating analytical frameworks from science studies, ethnography, and political and economic theory, this book charts an itiner