The Tumultuous Politics of Scale: Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Consisting of contributions from anthropologists, geographers and cultural studies scholars, this volume explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and spatial scales, and around variations in scale from the body to the global.

Author: Donald M. Nonini
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/03/2020
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780367186241

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2021

About the Author

Donald M. Nonini, Professor of Anthropology, University of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill, has undertaken research in Malaysia, Australia, and the

United States on citizenship in the Chinese diaspora; U.S. local politics; and

on the commons. His latest book is "Getting by" Class and State Formation

among Chinese in Malaysia (Cornell University Press, 2015).

Ida Susser, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College

and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has published on

popular mobilizations, social movements, and the urban commons in the

United States, Europe, and Southern Africa. Her books include Norman

Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (Oxford University Press,

2012) and the co- edited volumes, Rethinking America (CRC Press, 2009) and

Wounded Cities (Berg, 2003).