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Alter-Politics : Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination, Paperback / softback Book

Alter-Politics : Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination Paperback / softback

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This 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. Alter-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. If Alter-Politics privileges alter-politics over oppositional politics, it is not because, as is made clear, the 'alter' moment is more important than the 'anti'.

It is because a concern for alter-politics has been less prevalent.

The question of 'political passion' is crucial in this conception of the alter-political.

For the book argues that it is because radical political passion has been mostly directed towards anti-politics that it has come to dominate over alter-politics.

This does not simply mean that political passion needs to be equally directed towards alter-politics.

It also means that this passion itself needs to be a radically different kind of political passion once so directed.

It is this 'alter-political passion' that Hage strives to create a space for throughout Alter-Politics.

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