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The Future as cultural fact: essays on the global condition / Arjun Appadurai.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Verso Books 2013. London ; New York :Description: viii, 328 p.; 24cmISBN:
  • 9781844679829 (pbk.)
  • 1844679829
  • 9781844679836 (hbk.)
  • 1844679837 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 337
LOC classification:
  • JZ 1318 A646f 2013
Contents:
Part 1: Moving geographies: 1.Commodities and the Politics of Value--2.How Histories Make Geographies: Circulation and Context in a Global Perspective--3.The Morality of Refusal--4.The Offending Part: Sacrifice and Ethnocide in the Era of Globalization--5.In My Fathers's Nation: Reflictions on Biography, Memory, Family-- Part 2: The View From Mumbai: 6.Housing and Hope--7.Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai--8.Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics--9.The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition--10.Cosmopolitanism from Below: Some Ethical Lessons from the Slums of Mumbai--Part 3: Making the Future: 11.The Spirit of Weber--12.The Ghost in the Financial Machine--13.The Social Life of Design--14.Research as a Human Right--15.The Future as Cultural Fact.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JZ 1318 A646f 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000103735

Includes bibliography (p.[301]-315 and index.

Part 1: Moving geographies: 1.Commodities and the Politics of Value--2.How Histories Make Geographies: Circulation and Context in a Global Perspective--3.The Morality of Refusal--4.The Offending Part: Sacrifice and Ethnocide in the Era of Globalization--5.In My Fathers's Nation: Reflictions on Biography, Memory, Family-- Part 2: The View From Mumbai: 6.Housing and Hope--7.Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai--8.Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics--9.The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition--10.Cosmopolitanism from Below: Some Ethical Lessons from the Slums of Mumbai--Part 3: Making the Future: 11.The Spirit of Weber--12.The Ghost in the Financial Machine--13.The Social Life of Design--14.Research as a Human Right--15.The Future as Cultural Fact.

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