Fear of Small Numbers读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 112页 | 2020 | Duke Univ Pr |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ 84.69 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-07-21 … | 7 |
The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other?"Fear of Small Numbers" is Arjun Appadurai's answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fuelling large-scale, culturally motivated violence, from the genocides that racked Eastern Europe, Rwanda, and India in the early 1990s to the contemporary 'war on terror'. Providing a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global violence, he describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent about minorities at the same time that minorities, because of global communication technologies and migration flows, increasingly see themselves as parts of powerful global majorities.By exacerbating the inequalities produced by globalization, the volatile, slippery relationship between majorities and minorities foments the desire to eradicate cultural difference. Appadurai analyzes the darker side of globalization: suicide bombings; anti-Americanism; the surplus of rage manifest in televised beheadings; the clash of global ideologies; and the difficulties that flexible, cellular organizations such as Al-Qaeda present to centralized, 'vertebrate' structures such as national governments. Powerful, provocative, and timely, "Fear of Small Numbers" is a thoughtful invitation to rethink what violence is in an age of globalization.
作者简介帕沙·查特吉（Partha Chatterjee），纽约哥伦比亚大学人类学和南亚研究教授，也是加尔各答社会科学研究中心荣誉教授。他的著作有《民族主义思想与殖民地世界》（Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World）、 《民族及其碎 片》（The Nation and its Fragments）、《被治理者的政治》（The Politics of the Governed）、《政治社会的谱系》（Lineages of Political Society）和《帝国的黑洞》（The Black Hole of Empire）。他是庶民研究小组的创始成员，也以孟加拉语创作散文和戏剧。
沙希德·阿明（Shahid Amin），牛津大学哲学博士，德里大学文学硕士。1985—2015年间任教于德里大学历史系。他曾是斯坦福人...
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