Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance

by Roma Chatterji

The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das's work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of responsibility. They search for disciplinary resources to contest the implicit division between those whose pain receives attention and those whose pain is seen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823261867
• ISBN13: 9780823261864
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.9"