No Go World How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Ruben Andersson is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. He is the author of Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe and the winner of the BBC Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography in 2015."<i>No Go World</i> is an ambitious and wide-ranging exploration of how risk, danger and fear are ‘remapping’ the world with dire ethical and practical consequences. In examining how ‘remote zones of insecurity are becoming central to our new world disorder’ (p. 3), the book seizes an ambitious remit and is a worthwhile read for a broad range of readers interested in security studies, insurance, risk, human geography and questions of social-science method itself."
Journal of Refugee Studies
"The history of Western map making serves Andersson as a particularly powerful metaphor throughout the book. It allows him to illustrate the Western gaze, time horizons, beliefs, hopes, and fears in relation to the Orient."
American Anthropologist
"Vividly and convincingly, <i>No Go World </i>describes a global shift toward cordoning off more and more zones labeled violent and high-risk, making them inaccessible to outsiders. . . . Andersson’s argument is devastating and crucial."
Public Books
"Andersson’s adventuring is almost impossible to contain in just one sentence, as it weaves in and out of locations, through maps both real and those mappae mundi full of monsters he was obsessed with as a child. . . . The value, ultimately, and there is real value, in <i>No Go World</i> is in the discovery of the mostly unseen everyday that refuses to be defeated by the military border."
Society and Space
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction: Into the Danger Zone
PART 1: THE STORY OF THE MAP
1. The Timbuktu Syndrome
2. Remoteness Remapped
3. The Tyranny of Distance
Interlude: The Drone, the Web, and the World of Mirrors
PART 2: CONTAGION
4. Wolves at the Door
5. The Snake Merchants
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Conclusion: Danger Unmapped
Acknowledgments
Power of Narration, Narration of Power: An Anthropological Appendix
Notes
Works Cited
Index
“One of the best books available on what is commonly perceived in the West as the ‘refugee crisis’ but is in fact a world rent by fear and conflict, with refugees as one symptom.”—Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, and former Director of the London School of Economics
“An impressive and wide-ranging tour de force. With great panache and critical thinking, Andersson explores the ideas and practices behind our current ‘global map of fear’ and how it must be rethought and challenged.”—Hans Lucht, author of Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today
“This beautifully written book takes us on a journey through the distanced interventions of the ‘war on terror,’ showing how, in these global times, efforts to push risk ever further away end up bringing it closer—creating the basis for a no go world. Full of ideas and stories, and with hope as well as pessimism, it is the sort of book that needs to be read slowly.”—Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, London School of Economics, and author of New and Old Wars
“No Go World provides a geopolitical map of security investment and withdrawal, hot spots and danger zones. An important study and an engaging read.”—Mark Maguire, author of Bodies as Evidence: Security, Knowledge, and Power