The Social Production Of Indifference
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Author |
: Michael Herzfeld |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 1993-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226329086 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226329089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Production of Indifference by : Michael Herzfeld
In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern Greece and utilizing other European materials, he suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility. He points out that both formal regulations and day-to-day bureaucratic practices rely heavily on the symbols and language of the moral boundaries between insiders and outsiders; a ready means of expressing prejudice and of justifying neglect. It therefore happens that societies with proud traditions of generous hospitality may paradoxically produce at the official level some of the most calculated indifference one can find anywhere.
Author |
: Michael Herzfeld |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2021-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000323122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000323129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Production of Indifference by : Michael Herzfeld
In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern Greece and utilizing other European materials, he suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility. He points out that both formal regulations and day-to-day bureaucratic practices rely heavily on the symbols and language of the moral boundaries between insiders and outsiders; a ready means of expressing prejudice and of justifying neglect. It therefore happens that societies with proud traditions of generous hospitality may paradoxically produce at the official level some of the most calculated indifference one can find anywhere.
Author |
: Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 632 |
Release |
: 2023-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520911567 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520911563 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death Without Weeping by : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
Author |
: Michael Herzfeld |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2016-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226331751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022633175X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Siege of the Spirits by : Michael Herzfeld
What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old Bangkok whose residents have resisted authorities’ demands to vacate their homes for a quarter of a century. It’s a story of community versus government, of old versus new, and of political will versus the law. Herzfeld argues that even though the residents of Pom Mahakan have lost every legal battle the city government has dragged them into, they have won every public relations contest, highlighting their struggle as one against bureaucrats who do not respect the age-old values of Thai/Siamese social and cultural order. Such values include compassion for the poor and an understanding of urban space as deeply embedded in social and ritual relations. In a gripping account of their standoff, Herzfeld—who simultaneously argues for the importance of activism in scholarship—traces the agile political tactics and styles of the community’s leadership, using their struggle to illuminate the larger difficulties, tensions, and unresolved debates that continue to roil Thai society to this day.
Author |
: Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2013-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745638096 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745638090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernity and the Holocaust by : Zygmunt Bauman
Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the lessons which the Holocaust has for sociology. Bauman's work demonstrates that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity. There is nothing comparable to this work available in the sociological literature.
Author |
: Anna Eriksson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2015-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317679844 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317679849 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Punishing the Other by : Anna Eriksson
Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and criminalization. Bringing together some of the most exciting international scholars, both established and emerging, this book engages with Bauman’s thesis of the social production of immorality in the context of criminalization and social control and addresses processes of ‘othering’ through a range of contemporary case studies situated in various cultural, political and social contexts. Topics covered include the increasing bureaucratization of the business of punishment with the corresponding loss of moral and ethical reflection in the public sphere; punitive discourses around border control and immigration; and exclusionary discourses and their consequences concerning ‘terrorists’ and other socially and culturally defined outsiders. Engaging with national and global issues that are more topical now than ever before, this book is essential reading for academics and students of involved in the study of the sociology of punishment, punishment and modern society, the criminal justice system, philosophy and punishment, and comparative criminology and penology.
Author |
: Jutta Weldes |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 081663307X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816633074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultures of Insecurity by : Jutta Weldes
Genocide in Rwanda, instability in the Middle East, anarchy on the Internet -- insecurities abound. But do they occur "naturally, " or are they, as this pathbreaking volume suggests, cultural and social productions? Bringing together scholars from political science and anthropology, this collection of essays redirects long-standing views on culture as both a source of insecurity and an object of analysis. The authors present studies whose topics range from traditional security concerns, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Korean War, and he Middle East, to less conventional issues, including the Internet and national security, multiculturalism and regional economy in New Mexico.
Author |
: Emilie M. Townes |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2006-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230601628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230601626 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil by : Emilie M. Townes
This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.
Author |
: Henri Lefebvre |
Publisher |
: Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 1992-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0631181776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780631181774 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Production of Space by : Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.
Author |
: Ash Amin |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2013-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745660622 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745660622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Land of Strangers by : Ash Amin
The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents are expected to stay away, or to conform and integrate, as they come to be framed in an optic of the social as interpersonal or communitarian. Judging these developments as dangerous, this book offers a counter-argument by looking to relations that are not reducible to local or social ties in order to offer new suggestions for living in diversity and for forging a different politics of the stranger. The book explains the balance between positive and negative public feelings as the synthesis of habits of interaction in varied spaces of collective being, from the workplace and urban space, to intimate publics and tropes of imagined community. The book proposes a series of interventions that make for public being as both unconscious habit and cultivated craft of negotiating difference, radiating civilities of situated attachment and indifference towards the strangeness of others. It is in the labour of cultivating the commons in a variety of ways that Amin finds the elements for a new politics of diversity appropriate for our times, one that takes the stranger as there, unavoidable, an equal claimant on ground that is not pre-allocated.