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UNINA9910783021703321 |
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MbembeĢ J.-A. <1957-> |
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On the postcolony [[electronic resource] /] / Achille Mbembe |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
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0-520-91753-7 |
1-59734-783-3 |
9786613520234 |
1-280-08018-3 |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 41 |
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Power (Social sciences) - Africa |
Postcolonialism - Africa |
Subjectivity |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Original title: Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-269) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Time on the Move -- 1. Of Commandment -- 2. On Private Indirect Government -- 3. The Aesthetics of Vulgarity -- 4. The Thing and Its Doubles -- 5. Out of the World -- 6. God's Phallus -- Conclusion: The Final Manner -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Post-colony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays-his first book to be published in English-develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Post-colony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder, and laughter - to profoundly contest categories of oppression and |
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resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. |
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UNINA9910647599103321 |
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Autore |
Krause Franz |
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Delta Life : Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea / / Franz Krause, Mark Harris . Volume 28 |
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Berghahn Books, 2021 |
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[s.l.] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2021 |
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Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology |
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Social Science / Human Geography |
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
Nature / Natural Resources |
Nature |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Life at Water's Edge -- Chapter 1. Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth's Physical Features -- Chapter 2. The Global Swamp: The Amphibious as a Figure of Heterotopia -- Chapter 3. Stagnation: Waterfl ows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, Colombia -- Chapter 4. Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Towards a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada -- Chapter 5. 'This Tide Will Be a Good Tide': On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaiba Delta, Brazil -- Chapter 6. Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and |
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Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal -- Chapter 7. Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish Delta -- Chapter 8. Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar -- Conclusion. Confl uences and Distributaries in Delta Life -- Index |
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Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents 'delta life' with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops 'delta life' as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people's lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide. |
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