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primitive societies
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- ISBN 9783593519302
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Campus Verlag
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Paperback
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Perspectives on nomadism in political and theoretical contexts.
What is the discourse about nomadism telling us about anthropological concepts of Western societies? This edited volume relates historical instances of nomadism to the role of “the nomad” in political discourses and recent theoretical debates. The figure of the nomad was and still is constructed as an antagonist within a (neo-)liberal frame of narratives about sedentarism, productivity, and improvement. Whereas the discourse about nomadism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was entangled with colonial contexts and ideas about so-called primitive societies, it became even more multifaceted in the twentieth century, considering ideas about “nomadic thinking” of Deleuze and Guattari, and different forms of “modern nomadism” on the rise: from traveling day laborers to refugees of war, from scientists to a global managerial class.
What is the discourse about nomadism telling us about anthropological concepts of Western societies? This edited volume relates historical instances of nomadism to the role of “the nomad” in political discourses and recent theoretical debates. The figure of the nomad was and still is constructed as an antagonist within a (neo-)liberal frame of narratives about sedentarism, productivity, and improvement. Whereas the discourse about nomadism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was entangled with colonial contexts and ideas about so-called primitive societies, it became even more multifaceted in the twentieth century, considering ideas about “nomadic thinking” of Deleuze and Guattari, and different forms of “modern nomadism” on the rise: from traveling day laborers to refugees of war, from scientists to a global managerial class.
Anna Möllers completed her bachelor's degree in German studies and history as well as her master's degree in history in Münster. She specialized in European expansion and colonial history. Dirk Schuck studied philosophy, sociology, and political science in Frankfurt am Main. He received his doctorate on the history of early liberalism at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Leipzig. Bernhard Kleeberg is professor of history of science at the University of Erfurt. His current research focuses on praxeologies of truth, political epistemologies of Central and Eastern Europe, and the history of social psychology.
