02871nam 2200445 450 991079356810332120230124195440.00-522-86739-1(CKB)4100000007817663(MiAaPQ)EBC5739384(EXLCZ)99410000000781766320190408d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAlter-politics critical anthropology and the radical imagination /Ghassan HageCarlton, Victoria, Australia :Melbourne University Press,2015.1 online resource (x, 241 pages)0-522-86738-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Annotation.This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms of inequality, injustice and marginalization. It is concerned with the way anthropological critical writing in particular aims to weave oppositional concerns (anti-politics) with a search for alternatives (alter-politics): alternative economies, alternative modes of inhabiting and relating to the earth, alternative modes of thinking and experiencing otherness. If the book privileges alter-politics over oppositional politics, it is not because, as is made clear, the 'alter' moment is more important than the 'anti'. It is because a concern for alter-politics has been less prevalent.The question of 'political passion' is crucial in this conception of the alter-political. For the book argues that it is because radical political passion has been mostly directed towards anti-politics that it has come to dominate over alter-politics. This does not simply mean that political passion needs to be equally directed towards alter-politics. It also means that this passion itself needs to be a radically different kind of political passion once so directed. It is this 'alter-political passion' that I strive to create a space for throughout the work. - See more at: https://www.mup.com.au/items/153398#sthash.1jJNCsxE.dpuf.Political scienceAnthropological aspectsPolitical sociologyAnthropologyPolitical psychologyPolitical scienceAnthropological aspects.Political sociology.Anthropology.Political psychology.306.2Hage Ghassan780021MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793568103321Alter-politics3731234UNINA