Arjun Appadurai es un antropólogo indio-estadounidense reconocido como un importante teórico en los estudios de globalización. En su trabajo antropológico, discute la importancia de la modernidad de los estados-nación y la globalización. Su investigación profundiza en cómo los flujos globales de medios, tecnología y personas son moldeados y, a su vez, influyen en las culturas e identidades locales. Las ideas de Appadurai ofrecen una comprensión crucial de la relación dinámica entre lo global y lo local en el mundo contemporáneo.
Focuses on the way that changing sites - local, regional, diasporic - are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibilities, and ethos articulates new legalities and new kinds of violence. This work examines how this transformation involves changes in the situation of the nation, the state, and the city.
The study delves into the intricate politics surrounding worship practices at the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, an esteemed ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. It explores the interplay of religious rituals, community dynamics, and cultural significance within the temple's historical context, offering insights into how worship shapes and is shaped by social and political factors. Through this examination, the work highlights the temple's role in the broader landscape of Sri Vaisnava traditions and its impact on local and religious identity.
Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state, whose era some see as coming to an end. Appadurai examines the current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the win forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patters, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence. He considers the way images--of lifestyles, popular culture, and self-representation--circulate internationally through the media and are often borrowed in surprising (to their originators) and inventive fashions.
Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.
The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. This book provides a framework for understanding sources of global violence.
In Search of Vanished Blood ist ein Künstlerbuch der dOCUMENTA (13) zu Nalini Malanis zeitbezogenen Werken. Im Kontext der zunehmend schwierigen politischen Situation der frühen 1990er-Jahre gehörte sie zu den ersten Künstlern in Indien, die sich vom traditionellen Tafelbild abwandten und »vergängliche« Wandzeichnungen, Theaterstücke, Schattenspiele oder Videos schufen. Malini wurde damit zu einer der einflussreichsten zeitgenössischen Künstlerinnen ihres Landes, sie brachte ihren dezidiert feministischen Standpunkt visuell zum Ausdruck und stellte damit überlieferte Ikonografien und hochgeschätzte kulturelle Stereotypen infrage. Ihr Standpunkt ist urban und international, sie verurteilt unnachgiebig jenen zynischen Nationalismus, der die breite Masse ausnutzt. Ihre Kunst ist exzessiv, überschreitet die Grenzen herkömmlicher Erzählweisen und Konventionen und setzt Dialoge in Gang. Ausstellung: dOCUMENTA (13) 9.6.–16.9.2012
Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become. The authors propose a theory of habitual failure by exploring crisis and divides - yet failure is not a self-evident quality. It requires a new understanding of why it is so quickly forgotten--
This collection of essays by Arjun Appadurai based on his fieldwork in rural Maharashtra, India, in the early 1980s is one of the few anthropological treatments of agricultural reasoning. In conversation with agronomists, economists, and development anthropologists, the essays explore the ways agricultural technologies, changes in how surface wells are dug and managed, the provision and sharing of food and management of time, issues of scale in studying rural lives, and how local knowledge is formed and transformed reveal the distinctive character of rural Indian sociality. Locating these features in the context of “subsistence capitalism,” Appadurai draws our attention to the importance of relational practices and the pull of autonomy. These essays offer a close look at an agrarian society at the pivotal moment of its encounter with capitalist transformation and study ideas of measurement, sociality, and independence.