LEADER 02989 am 22005893u 450 001 996552349203316 005 20230621135719.0 010 $a1-5261-1901-3 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526147264 035 $a(CKB)4100000008710969 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33288 035 $a(DE-B1597)659305 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526147264 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008710969 100 $a20190721c2019uuuu fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChange and the politics of certainty /$fJenny Edkins 210 $aManchester, UK$cManchester University Press$d2019 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2019. 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (245 pages) $cillustrations (black and white); digital, PDF file(s) 311 $a1-5261-1903-X 311 $a1-5261-4726-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aDespite the imperative for change in a world of persistent inequality, racism, oppression and violence, difficulties arise once we try to bring about a transformation. As scholars, students and activists, we may want to change the world, but we are not separate, looking in, but rather part of the world ourselves. The book demonstrates that we are not in control: with all our academic rigour, we cannot know with certainty why the world is the way it is, or what impact our actions will have. It asks what we are to do, if this is the case, and engages with our desire to seek change. Chapters scrutinise the role of intellectuals, experts and activists in famine aid, the Iraq war, humanitarianism and intervention, traumatic memory, enforced disappearance, and the Grenfell Tower fire, and examine the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time, space and materiality, and ideas of the human and sentience. Plays and films by Michael Frayn, Chris Marker and Patricio Guzmán are considered, and autobiographical narrative accounts probe the author?s life and background. The book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope. 606 $aSocial change$xPolitical aspects 606 $aChange$xSocial aspects 606 $aPolitical science 610 $achange 610 $acertainty 610 $asecurity 610 $adesire 610 $afantasy 610 $ahope 610 $aintellectuals 610 $aactivists 610 $aautobiographical 610 $anarrative 615 0$aSocial change$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aChange$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aPolitical science. 676 $a320.01 700 $aEdkins$b Jenny$0863060 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552349203316 996 $aChange and the politics of certainty$91926646 997 $aUNISA LEADER 01058nam0 22002771i 450 001 UON00079796 005 20231205102424.862 010 $a04-15-13724-1 100 $a20020107d1997 |0itac50 ba 101 $aeng 102 $aGB 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aAfrican voices, african lives$epersonal narratives from a swahili village$fPat Caplan 210 $aLondon$aNew York$cRoutledge$d1997 215 $axiv, 267 p.$cill.$d22 cm 606 $aPOPOLI DI LINGUA SWAHILI$xVita sociale e costumi$3UONC022698$2FI 620 $aGB$dLondon$3UONL003044 676 $a305.896392$cPOPOLI DI LINGUA SWAHILI$v21 700 1$aCaplan$bPat$3UONV044626$00 712 $aRoutledge$3UONV248939$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20250207$gRICA 899 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$2UONSI 912 $aUON00079796 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$dSI ST 165 $eSI AA 20034 5 165 996 $aAfrican voices, african lives$91301138 997 $aUNIOR