[Commlist] New open access book: Ruptures: Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open 
access book that is likely to be of interest to list subscribers: 
Ruptures: Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil, edited by 
Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, and Julia F. Sauma.  Download it free 
from http://bit.ly/3213Jm3

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Ruptures: Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil
Edited by Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, and Julia F. Sauma
Download free: http://bit.ly/3213Jm3

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Ruptures brings together leading and emerging international 
anthropologists to explore the concept of ‘rupture’. Understood as 
radical and often forceful forms of discontinuity, rupture is the active 
ingredient of the current sense of a world in turmoil, lying at the 
heart of some of the most defining experiences of our time: the rise of 
populist politics, the corollary impulse towards protest and even 
revolutionary change, as well as moves towards violence and terror, and 
the responses these moves elicit.

Rupture is addressed in selected ethnographic and historical contexts: 
images of the guillotine in the French revolution; reactions to Trump’s 
election in the USA; the motivations of young Danes who join ISIS in 
Syria; ‘butterfly effect’ activism among environmental anarchists in 
northern Europe; the experiences of political trauma and its ‘repair’ 
through privately sponsored museums of Mao’s revolution in China; 
people’s experience of the devastating 2001 earthquake in Gujarat; the 
‘inner’ rupture of Protestant faith among Danish nationalist 
theologians; and the attempt to invent ex nihilo an alphabet for use in 
Christian prophetic movements in Congo and Angola.

Ruptures takes in new directions broader intellectual debates about 
continuity and change. In particular, by thematising rupture as a 
radical, sometimes violent, and even brutal form of discontinuity, it 
adds a sharper critical edge to contemporary discourses, both in social 
theory and public debate and policy.

Download free: http://bit.ly/3213Jm3

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