Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

Roy, Arundhati

ISBN 10: 160846024X / ISBN 13: 9781608460243

Edité par Haymarket Books, 2009

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Book and jacket are both in Near Fine condition. Jacket in protective mylar wrap. Signed with personal inscription by author on title page.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
• Éditeur: Haymarket Books
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 160846024X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781608460243
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Politics
  • Essays

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Présentation de l'éditeur

'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?'Combining brilliant insight and razor-sharp prose, Listening to Grasshoppers is Arundhati Roy's essential exploration of the political picture in India today. In these essays she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways. Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, and ending with an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai, Listening to Grasshoppers tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious future and, along the way, asks fundamental questions about democracy itself - a political system that has, by virtue of being considered 'the best available option', been put beyond doubt and correction.