Das Veena - Slum Acts - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate excessive and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low - income poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long - term ethnography in these spaces this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life eroding trust sowing suspicions and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods the book finds that deep philosophical questions such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.
Title: Slum Acts
Author(s): Das Veena
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509537860
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 4/18/2022
Series: After the Postcolonial
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography