Minggu, 21 Oktober 2012

The wall around life

The kinds of processes that I have been looking at are processes of impoverishment; processes in which the state is an active agent, and active actor, in letting people’s lives waste in certain places and at certain times. Anthropology has had a role in studying this displacement and this dispossession by showing how connections matter, how other lives here are entangled with those in remote processes, remote places, in the hope that we can at least broaden a moral compass. Thank you very much.

(Shalini Randeria)