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Globalization liberates some and oppress others. my vien And in this partition of the world, each is referred to a supposedly essential identity and "real". Hence a true "identity trap", negation of the other and his subjectivity, sometimes justified by anthropology - the opposite of its humanist and critical vocation. Faced with this challenge, the contemporary my vien view of the world needs to be rethought, overcoming cultural relativism and "ontologies" identity. In this book, Michael Agier takes a decidedly my vien "off-center" position, inviting the reader to reconsider the meaning and uses of the border: place of passage, unstable and constantly negotiated, it makes us humans in establishing the place and the existence social each while recognizing those of others. The wall is its opposite: he embodies the identity trap against otherness. The survey on the state of the world and its violence on the borders and walls, on the meaning of words ("identity", "civilization", "race", "culture") and proposes an original reflection on the cosmopolitan provided figure two-faced: on one side, the absolute stranger, my vien global and anonymous, identity politics that emerge in frightening traits; on the other, the subject-other, the one from outside "my identity," makes me think all the time in the world to me and to others. In arguing for the validity of the anthropological approach, Michel Agier here seeks to overcome the identity trap, to show that other ways of thinking are possible. Learning to cross borders where the other to recognize and patronize, became one of the major challenges of our time.
Michel Agier is an anthropologist, director of research at the IRD and the EHESS, member of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology (IIAC). His publications include Managing undesirable my vien (Flammarion, 2008) and The cosmopolitan Condition (La Découverte, 2013).
Introduction. Exit The cosmopolitan identity trap condition modernity "man-border" Patras 2009: a concentrate of the world state Afghans stranded at the border and solidarity Indifference Borders and walls I / The issue of borders and the new World Report 1. The Elementary Forms of the border Wall, border negation The temporal, social and spatial dimensions of the rite of the border community and city: the border as a social fact Sacred space in Salvador de Bahia - Symbolic my vien border: the house insiders Baruya society (New Guinea) An anthropology / Delineate the border, do exist: border and identity - The history of identities: a succession of migrations and accommodation - Places uncertain: Tocqueville and Indians - Time interval: Carnivals and deceleration Border Situations and 2. The world as liminality problem Is the world a problem? Reality cosmopolitan realpolitik and economic globalization and weakening of nation-states - the five "global landscapes" Arjun Appadurai - Extension and borders of the new social networks Violence on the border: the outside of the nation's "border police" what remains my vien of the nation-states of the North - the South, the nation's my vien fragile my vien borders in Africa - The "National Aboriginal identity" anthropological monster - The space for humanitarian action, or the partial relocation of political sovereignty The walls of the colonial war 6 War, migrants - Questions on the "wish wall" 3. The cosmopolitan provided today Man border: Figures of the relative strangeness Wandering like adventure - Become a pariah - Four wogs - Stranger in His Labyrinth Being in the world: questions about the cosmopolitan Condition 4. Method question: what anthropology to understand the world around us? Critical moment: the contemporary my vien turn of anthropology The end of the "great divide" Rethinking cultural shift Decentering - epistemological Decentering - Political Decentering A contemporary anthropology and situational Ending the "schizogénique use of time" - The transition to 'situational approach II / From the trap of identity politics of the subject 5. The issue of identity in the era of globalization The three mistakes of identity trap we to believe the essential