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Decay / Ghassan Hage.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Degeneration--Social aspects.
- Degeneration.
- Degeneration--Political aspects.
- Anthropological ethics.
- Political culture.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 181 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In thirteen sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material forms of decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Toward an Analytics of Social Decay / Ghassan Hage
- Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay / Violeta Schubert
- Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age / Debra McDougall
- The Dialectic of Construction and Ruination in the Study of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta
- The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation / Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer
- "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution / Michael Herzfeld
- Decay or Fresh Contact? Exposure, Mixture, and Moral Panic after War's End / Bart Klem
- Seeds of Decay / Fabio Mattioli
- Accelerated Decay in Settler Colonial Australia / Elise Klein
- Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon / Ghassan Hage
- Relational Decay: White Helpers on Australia's Colonial Frontier / Cameo Dalley
- Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System / Tamara Kohn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013808
- 147801380X
- 9781478022039
- 1478022035
- OCLC:
- 1261317779
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