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Collateral Afterworlds: Sociality Besides Redemption

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Description for Collateral Afterworlds: Sociality Besides Redemption paperback. Editor(s): Wool, Zoe H.; Livingston, Julie. Num Pages: 134 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This issue moves beyond the binary of life and death to explore how the gray areas in between—precarious life, slow death—call into question assumptions about the social in social theory. In these “collateral afterworlds,” where the line between life and death is blurred, the presumed attachments of sociality to life and solitude to death are no longer reliable. The contributors focus on the daily experiences of enduring a difficult present unhinged from any redeeming future, addressing topics such as drug treatment centers in Mexico City, solitary death in Japan, Inuit colonial violence, human regard for animal life in India, and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822368632
SKU
V9780822368632
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About Zo H. Wool
Zoë H. Wool is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and the author of After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed, also published by Duke University Press. Julie Livingston is Professor of History and of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and the author of Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an ... Read more

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