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100	1		_aDas, Veena. _929341
245	1	0	_aSlum acts _cVeena Das.
260			_aCambridge: _bPolity Press, _c2022.
300			_aviii, 190 pages ; _c22 cm.
490	1		_aAfter the postcolonial
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The catastrophic event: enduring inordinate knowledge -- The dispersed body of the police and fictions of the law -- Detecting the human: under which skies do we theorize? -- Conclusion: in praise of the minor.
520			_a"This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities."--
650		0	_aSlums _xSocial aspects _zIndia _zDelhi. _929342
650		7	_aSlums _xSocial aspects. _2fast _929344
650		7	_aSocial conditions. _2fast _929345
651		0	_aDelhi (India) _xSocial conditions. _929343
651		7	_aIndia _zDelhi. _2fast _929346
830		0	_aAfter the postcolonial. _929347
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