The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality.

Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on firsthand research among urban slum dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality.

Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the "politics of hope" and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.

Author: Arjun Appadurai
Publisher: Verso
Published: 03/12/2013
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781844679829
ISBN10: 1844679829
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
- Political Science | Globalization
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

About the Author
Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization; The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective; and Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger.