The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844679829)

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality.

Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on firsthand research among urban slum dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality.

Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the "politics of hope" and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.

Author: Arjun Appadurai
ISBN-10: 1844679829
ISBN-13: 9781844679829
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d