Alter-politics : critical anthropology and the radical imagination / Ghassan Hage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hage, Ghassan, author.

Contributor:

Hage, Ghassan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political sociology.

Political science--Anthropological aspects.

Political science.

Political psychology.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I

1 The globalisation of the late colonial settler condition 13

2 On stuckedness: The critique of crisis and the crisis of critique 33

Part II

3 Critical anthropological thought and the radical political imaginary today 49

4 The Arab social sciences and the two critical traditions 79

Part III

5 On ethnography and political emotions: Hating Israel in the field 91

6 Alter-political rationality and anti-political emotions: The case of Fanon 120

Part IV

7 On narcissistic victimhood 145

Appendix to chapter 7:1 don't write poems but, in any case, poems are not poems 164

8 The unoccupied 165

9 Recalling anti-racism: Towards a critical anthropology of exterminability 173

Appendix to chapter 9: Against colonial rubbishing 193

10 Dwelling in the reality of Utopian thought 200

11 Other belongings 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780522868197

0522868193

9780522867381

0522867383

OCLC:

900457725