Das, Veena

Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial)

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ISBN 13:: 9781509537860
author:: Das, Veena
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Polity Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2022
Pages:: 160
Dimensions:: 22 x 13.9 x 1.6 centimeters (0.2
Genre:: Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Anthropology,
Condition:: New
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Slum Acts examines how overwhelming knowledge shapes everyday life in low-income neighborhoods in Delhi. Based on long-term ethnography, this book provides an analysis of policing and law in India, revealing how catastrophic events and governance techniques secrete forms of knowing that erode trust and lead to exhaustion. In these spaces, survival strategies generate critique that challenges the routine use of punishment and torture in democracies. The book follows those who struggle with these questions, finding that deep philosophical questions about humanity's capacity for the inhuman arise in their lives. This nuanced exploration will be of interest to scholars in anthropology and beyond. Veena Das's work offers a unique perspective on the intersections of power, violence, and everyday life, shedding light on the complex dynamics at play in these neighborhoods.

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