{"product_id":"slum-acts-by-veena-das-9781509537860","title":"Slum Acts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighbourhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinised in democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighbourhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlum Acts\u003c\/em\u003e will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428001202412,"sku":"9781509537860","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509537860.jpg?v=1774767253","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/slum-acts-by-veena-das-9781509537860","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}