Includes bibliography (p.[301]-315) and index.

Part 1: Moving geographies: 1.Commodities and the Politics of Value--2.How Histories Make Geographies: Circulation and Context in a Global Perspective--3.The Morality of Refusal--4.The Offending Part: Sacrifice and Ethnocide in the Era of Globalization--5.In My Fathers's Nation: Reflictions on Biography, Memory, Family-- Part 2: The View From Mumbai: 6.Housing and Hope--7.Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai--8.Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics--9.The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition--10.Cosmopolitanism from Below: Some Ethical Lessons from the Slums of Mumbai--Part 3: Making the Future: 11.The Spirit of Weber--12.The Ghost in the Financial Machine--13.The Social Life of Design--14.Research as a Human Right--15.The Future as Cultural Fact.

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers , 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 firsthand 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.

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