Beschreibung:
Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. He has written extensively on the comparative anthropology of nationalism, racism and multiculturalism. His most well-known works are White Nation (2000) and Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003). Responsibility is the third collection edited by Ghassan with MUP. It follows Waiting (2009) and Force, Movement, Intensity (2011).
One can learn a great deal about a social formation by looking at the way the meanings of responsibility are deployed within it, the way they vary from one social space to another, and the way they are often at the centre of a political struggle over how we define and apportion blame. The essays in this book do more than examine such processes. Each in its own way also invites the reader to push existing assumptions about what individual, political, ecological and corporate responsibility entails.