{"product_id":"9780522867381","title":"Alter-Politics","description":"Author: Ghassan Hage\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522867381\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Feb 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 232\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms of inequality, injustice and marginalisation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAlter-Politics \u003c\/i\u003eis concerned with the way anthropological critical writing in particular aims to weave oppositional concerns (anti-politics) with a search for alternatives (alter-politics): alternative economies, alternative modes of inhabiting and relating to the earth, alternative modes of thinking and experiencing otherness.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n If \u003ci\u003eAlter-Politics\u003c\/i\u003e privileges alter-politics over oppositional politics, it is not because, as is made clear, the 'alter' moment is more important than the 'anti'. It is because a concern for alter-politics has been less prevalent. The question of 'political passion' is crucial in this conception of the alter-political. For the book argues that it is because radical political passion has been mostly directed towards anti-politics that it has come to dominate over alter-politics. This does not simply mean that political passion needs to be equally directed towards alter-politics. It also means that this passion itself needs to be a radically different kind of political passion once so directed. It is this 'alter-political passion' that Hage strives to create a space for throughout \u003ci\u003eAlter-Politics\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47242166993054,"sku":"HPC-9780522867381","price":52.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780522867381.jpg?v=1780361133","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780522867381","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}