Social Science Research Council
Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His many books included Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Duke University Press, 2006) and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
I grew up in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1950s and early 1960s. I spoke Tamil with my mother, a combination of English and Tamil with my siblings and my father, and various brands of Gujarati, Marathi and Hindi with friends, domestic helpers, neighbors, bureaucrats and shopkeepers. [...]
Read the rest of Is Mumbai’s resilience endlessly renewable?.I regret that we are forced to catch the special aura of this election without a deep and serious space for the idea of magic, magic as it used to be.
Read the rest of The magic ballot.Last week as I listened, along with many other Americans and others around the world, to President Bush’s most recent effort to reassure us about the current economic meltdown I had a “Road to Damascus” moment. It happened as I heard Bush repeat the word “faith”. [...]
Read the rest of Welcome to the faith-based economy.
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