Life, Emergent

The Social in the Afterlives of Violence

Bibliographic Data

ID19977553
AuthorsYasmeen Arif (0000-0002-1117-1265), Yasmeen R Arif (0000-0003-0878-1764, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages272
Publication date2016-11-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueLife, Emergent (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/minnesota/9781517900540.001.0001
OpenAlexW4256548071
Open LibraryOL28609487M
ISBN9781517900540
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Life, Emergent advocates for an affirmative life-politic that places the social squarely in the ‘meaning of life’, animating contemporary theory and practice on life in unexplored terrains. It privileges the social by exploring life-worlds of mass violence and questions the ability of the bio-political paradigm to contain a politics of life in the biological. What does an inquiry into life from the ‘social’ look like? Life, as it lives or dies in conditions of violence, in its momentum after damage, inscribes an emerging, dynamic, fluid, ever-changing explosion of relationalities in the cognizable realm called society. While the making and unmaking of life unfolds through these relationalities, so does the making and unmaking of the social. In privileging the social, this book intervenes in the bio-political paradigm and questions its ability to exhaust the ‘meaning of life’

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Meaning of life · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Race, Genetics, and Society · Citizenship · Civil society · Developing countries · Humanity · Political violence · Social conditions · Social conflict