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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny EdkinsPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.304kg ISBN: 9781526119032ISBN 10: 152611903 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 09 May 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Objects among objects 2. Intellectuals as experts 3. The final core of uncertainty 4. Humanitarianism, humanity, human 5. Memory and the future 6. Loss of a loss 7. Tracing disappearance 8. Stardust 9. Grenfell Tower fire 10. From one world to another Conclusion -- .Reviews'Only Jenny Edkins has the breadth of curiosity and knowledge to reveal relationships between the post-disaster politics of the Grenfell fire and the international responses to famine. This is a book for our times.' Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy 'Jenny Edkins takes us on a transformative journey into the subtleties of a politics without certainty. Powered by a quiet anger at the injustices of this world, her essays artfully resurrect modes of life that would otherwise vanish without a trace. This book exemplifies what it means to slowly, hopefully, on day-to-day terms, undo a patently colonial world.' Himadeep Muppidi, Betty G.C. Cartwright Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Vassar College 'In this carefully written book Edkins draws together strands of inquiry across her career to expose the ethical tensions of pursuing justice on behalf of a universalised, unprovincialised subject -- the We . Traversing multiple topics and various scales of analysis, Edkins argument provokes intimate and difficult questions for the academic committed to studying political change.' Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University -- . Author InformationJenny Edkins is Professor of Politics at The University of Manchester -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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