Indeterminacy by Catherine Alexander
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.“An excellent topicWhat I liked in particular was the sense of cohesion… The authors have addressed situations that speak to each other.” • Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University
Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Before her current appointment, she worked at Goldsmiths for ten years. She has published widely on wastes and recycling – including Economies of Recycling, co-edited with Joshua Reno (Zed Books, 2012) – as well as economic and urban anthropology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789200096 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789200091 |
| Title | Indeterminacy |
| Author | Catherine Alexander |
| Series | Wyse Series In Social Anthropology |
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| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2018-10-19 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
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