The Intimate Life of Dissent
Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, and Jonathan Spencer
The Intimate Life of Dissent will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers of anthropology, history, political theory and sociology. Written in a clear and accessible style, it is also suitable for teaching introductory undergraduate courses on political anthropology.
Praise for The Intimate Life of Dissent
'This book puts acts of high principle back into the personal relations out of which they emerge and take effect, raising new questions about the relationship between intimacy and political commitment. ... The Intimate Life of Dissent will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in anthropology, history, political theory, and sociology, as well as to those teaching introductory undergraduate courses on political anthropology.'
'In this collection, the socialities of intimacy multiply and offer other ways of accessing dissidences in worlds not so distant from Brazilian readers. It is still a pertinent question, however, to imagine how dissenters not informed by graphic forms (for example, writing) would present their intimacies, or even the non-human modes of dissident intimacies. These are questions for reading such reflections.'
Mana
Harini Amarasuriya is Senior Lecturer in Social Studies at
the Open University of Sri Lanka. Tobias Kelly is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Edinburgh. Sidharthan Maunaguru is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is Senior Research Fellow at the
University of Edinburgh. Jonathan Spencer is Professor of South Asian Studies at the
University of Edinburgh.
1. Introduction: the intimate life of dissent
Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer
2. One is the biggest number. estrangement, intimacy, and totalitarianism in late Soviet Russia
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
3. Dissent with/out resistance? Secular and ultra-Orthodox Israeli approaches to ethical and political disagreement
Erica Weiss
4. Friendship behind bars: Kurdish dissident politics in Turkey’s prisons
Serra Hakyemez
5. Intimate commitments: friends, comrades and family in the life of one Sri Lankan activist
Harini Amarasuriya and Jonathan Spencer
6. Dissenting conscience: the Intimate politics of objection in Second World War Britain
Tobias Kelly
7. Friends with differences: ethics, rivalry and politics among Sri Lankan Tamil former political activists
Sidharthan Maunaguru
8. The Intimacy of details: a Tibetan diary of dissent
Carole McGranahan
9. Dissident writing and the Intimacy of the archive in authoritarian Indonesia
Doreen Lee
Index
'In this collection, the socialities of intimacy multiply and offer other
ways of accessing dissidences in worlds not so distant from Brazilian
readers. It is still a pertinent question, however, to imagine how dissenters
not informed by graphic forms (for example, writing) would present their
intimacies, or even the non-human modes of dissident intimacies. These are
questions for reading such reflections.'
Mana
Format: Open Access PDF
Copyright: © 2020
ISBN: 9781787357778
Publication: September 01, 2020
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