This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large (1996), 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 first-hand 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.
- ISBN10 1844679837
- ISBN13 9781844679836
- Publish Date 8 April 2013 (first published 28 February 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 November 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English