Nomad Properties

ISBN 10: 3593519305 / ISBN 13: 9783593519302

Editore: Campus Verlag, 2026

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Riassunto:

Perspectives on nomadism in political and theoretical contexts.

What is the discourse about nomadism telling us about anthropological concepts of Western societies? This edited volume relates historical instances of nomadism to the role of “the nomad” in political discourses and recent theoretical debates. The figure of the nomad was and still is constructed as an antagonist within a (neo-)liberal frame of narratives about sedentarism, productivity, and improvement. Whereas the discourse about nomadism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was entangled with colonial contexts and ideas about so-called primitive societies, it became even more multifaceted in the twentieth century, considering ideas about “nomadic thinking” of Deleuze and Guattari, and different forms of “modern nomadism” on the rise: from traveling day laborers to refugees of war, from scientists to a global managerial class.

Informazioni sugli autori: Anna Möllers, Dr. phil., is a research assistant, Department History, at the University of Erfurt.

Dirk Schuck, Dr. phil., is a research fellow in the project »Possession and Habit. On the Political Anthropology of Property in Western Modernity«, sub-project in the CRC »Structural Change of Property«.

Bernhard Kleeberg is professor for History of Science at the University of Erfurt.

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Titolo: Nomad Properties
Casa editrice: Campus Verlag
Data di pubblicazione: 2026
Legatura: PAP
Condizione: New