UID:
almafu_9960860340702883
Format:
1 online resource (210 p.)
ISBN:
9781789200102
Series Statement:
WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 7
Content:
What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to states of despair and alienation. Drawing upon ethnographic research about a wide variety of contexts, the chapters here explore how indeterminacy is created and experienced in relationship to projects of classification and progress.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Figures --
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Introduction. The Values of Indeterminacy --
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1. Kept in Suspense: The Unsettling Indeterminacy of US Landfills --
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2. Experiments in Living: The Value of Indeterminacy in Trans Art --
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3. The Production of Indeterminacy: On the Unforeseeable Futures of Postindustrial Excess --
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4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: Two Kinds of Gypsy Indeterminacy in Norway --
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5. Waste People/Value Producers: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking Miners --
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6. Indeterminate Classifications: Being “More than Kin” in Kazakhstan --
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7. The Politics of Indeterminacy: Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value, and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines) --
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Epilogue. Indeterminacy: Between Worth and Worthlessness --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781789200102
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789200102?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789200102
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789200102?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789200102
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