Rethinking Life at the Margins: The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781472465757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 236 str.

Dr. Michele Lancione;Paul Kingsbury;Arun Saldanha

Opis

Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic works presented in the book trace the assemblage of marginality in multiple case-studies encompassing the Global North and South. These works are united by the approach developed in the book, characterised by the refusal of a priori definitions and by a post-human and grounded take on the assemblage of life. The result is a nuanced attention to the potential expressed by everyday articulations and a commitment to produce a processual, vitalist and non-normative cultural politics of the margins. The reader will find in this book unique challenges accepted and authoritative thinking, and provides new insights into researching life at the margins.

O autorze

Michele is Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Institute and at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK