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Change and the politics of certainty /

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Despite the imperative for change in a world of persistent inequality, racism, oppression and violence, difficulties arise once we try to bring about a transformation. As scholars, students and activists, we may want to change the world, but we are not separate, looking in, but rather part of the wo...

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Main Author: Edkins, Jenny (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Online access: Manchester University Press Manchester Open Access.
Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
Subjects:
Social change > Political aspects.
Change > Social aspects.
Political science.
Changement (Philosophie) > Aspect social.
Comparative politics.
International relations.
Social change > Political aspects
Political science
Activists
Autobiographical
Certainty
Change
Desire
Fantasy
Hope
Intellectuals
Narrative
Security
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Objects among objects
  • 2. Intellectuals as experts
  • 3. The final core of uncertainty
  • 4. Humanitarianism, humanity, human
  • 5. Memory and the future
  • 6. Loss of loss
  • 7. Tracing disappearance
  • 8. Stardust
  • 9.. The grenfell tower file
  • 10. From one world to another Conclusion.