Title Words and worlds : a lexicon for dark times / edited by Veena Das and Didier Fassin

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages) Contents Introduction: From words to worlds / Didier Fassin and Veena Das -- Knowledge / Veena Das -- Democracy / Jan-Werner Müller -- Authority / Banu Bargu -- Belonging / Peter Geschiere -- Toleration / Uday S. Mehta -- Power / Alex de Waal -- War / Julieta Lemaitre -- Revolution / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi -- Corruption / Caroline Humphrey -- Openness / Todd Sanders and Elizabeth F. Sanders -- Resilience / Jonathan Pugh -- Inequality / Ravi Kanbur -- Crisis / Didier Fassin Summary "The contributors to Words and Worlds examine the state of politics and the political imaginary within contemporary societies by taking up the everyday words such as democracy, revolution, and populism that we use to understand the political present."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2022) Subject Language and languages -- Political aspects. Words, New -- Political aspects Sociolinguistics. Language and culture. sociolinguistics. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Language and culture. Language and languages -- Political aspects. Sociolinguistics. Form Electronic book Author Das, Veena, editor. Fassin, Didier, editor. LC no. 2020041473 ISBN 1478021470 9781478021476

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