Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical... - Hage, Ghassan

Melbourne University Press

Alter-PoliticsCritical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination\nAuthor(s): Ghassan Hage\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Melbourne University Press, Australia\nImprint: Melbourne University Press\nISBN-13: 9780522867381, 978-0522867381\nSynopsis\nThis book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms of inequality, injustice and marginalisation.\n\nAlter-Politics is concerned with the way anthropological critical writing in particular aims to weave oppositional concerns (anti-politics) with a search for alternatives (alter-politics): alternative economies, alternative modes of inhabiting and relating to the earth, alternative modes of thinking and experiencing otherness.\n\nIf Alter-Politics privileges alter-politics over oppositional politics, i.