Nobody's People : Hierarchy As Hope in A Society of Thieves.
Piliavsky, Anastasia.
Nobody's People : Hierarchy As Hope in A Society of Thieves. / Anastasia Piliavsky. - , California : Stanford University Press ,2021. - xii, 252p. : 24cm.
What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are "nobody's people": perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse. Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world—including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.
9781503614208
Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : A-184, A Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, Ghaziabad
Caste of thieves
Social ambitions
Society of Thieves
305.5 PIL
Nobody's People : Hierarchy As Hope in A Society of Thieves. / Anastasia Piliavsky. - , California : Stanford University Press ,2021. - xii, 252p. : 24cm.
What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are "nobody's people": perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse. Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world—including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.
9781503614208
Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : A-184, A Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, Ghaziabad
Caste of thieves
Social ambitions
Society of Thieves
305.5 PIL
