A01=Jarrett Zigon
Author_Jarrett Zigon
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critical theory
drug war
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ethics
hermeneutics
ontology
phenomenology
political activism
political ontology
politics
social movements
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- ISBN 9780823278244
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment responds to this call by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples can disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically. Drawing from nearly a decade of research with the global anti-drug war movement, Jarrett Zigon puts ethnography in dialogue with both political theory and continental philosophy to rethink some of the most fundamental ontological, political and ethical concepts. The result is to show that ontological starting points have real political implications, and thus, how an alternative ontological starting point can lead to new possibilities for building worlds more ethically attuned to their inhabitants.
Jarrett Zigon is the William and Linda Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
