Nicos Trimikliniotis , Wiebke Keim , Faisal Garba , Ari Sitas , Sumangala Damodaran
9789382381310
Tulika Books 2014
Language: English
264 Pages
6.25 x 9.5 Inches
Price INR 600.0 Not Available
Book Club Price INR 450.0 USD
Gauging and Engaging Deviance is at once a creative and challenging work. It is not just a critique of the sociological canon, but an imaginative reconstruction that is generous to all nooks and crannies of the planet. It is also a memorial to modernity’s victims, whether they were perceived to be deviant or not. Its broad historical range, its geographical spread, and its attention to race and power create a conceptual grammar through which we can speak of the key challenges, traumas and violence of the contemporary period. Through its pages of the Maroon and the Pirate meet Don Quixote, the Thug and the Apostate in a journey that takes the reader through slave factories, plantations, prisons and extermination camps, gauging the price of what it has meant to struggle to be contrary or free.