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- States Of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural critique. States of Exception looks into a community of immigrants from India living in southern New Jersey—a group to whom the author, as a daughter of two of its members, enjoyed unprecedented access.
Her position allows Keya Ganguly to approach the culture of a middle-class group (albeit one that is marginalized by racial prejudice), while the group’s relatively comfortable and protected style of life offers unusual insight into the concept of the everyday and the sense in which a seemingly commonplace existence can be understood as in crisis: a state of exception. Thus, Ganguly draws on the work of the Frankfurt School, particularly Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to explore the possibilities of a dialectical critique of the everyday—a state of exception informing ordinary yet crisis-ridden narratives of the self under late capitalism.
Her position allows Keya Ganguly to approach the culture of a middle-class group (albeit one that is marginalized by racial prejudice), while the group’s relatively comfortable and protected style of life offers unusual insight into the concept of the everyday and the sense in which a seemingly commonplace existence can be understood as in crisis: a state of exception. Thus, Ganguly draws on the work of the Frankfurt School, particularly Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to explore the possibilities of a dialectical critique of the everyday—a state of exception informing ordinary yet crisis-ridden narratives of the self under late capitalism.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- 1. Writing the Field
- pp. 26-64
- 2. The Antinomies of Everyday Life
- pp. 65-87
- 4. Food and the Habitus
- pp. 117-140
- 5. The Dialectics of Ethnic Spectatorship
- pp. 141-170
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816692354
Related ISBN(s)
9780816637171
MARC Record
OCLC
614925376
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No