Fear of Small Numbers. An Essay on the Geography of Anger.

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Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other?Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question.

Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. By. Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fueling large-scale, culturally motivated violence, from the genocides that racked Eastern Europe, Rwanda, and India in.

Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fueling large-scale, culturally motivated violence, from the genocides that racked Eastern Europe, Rwanda, and India in the early 1990s to the contemporary “war on terror.”.

Appadurai's work, Fear of Small Numbers, is not as profound as his Modernity at Large. He breaks down the issue of ethnic and political violence to the fact that, through globalization, the differences between groups have been getting smaller and smaller.

Canadian Journal of Sociology Online November-December 2006 Appadurai Arjun. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. Duke University Press, 2006, 176 pp.

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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. By Arjun Appadurai. Arjun Appadurai Arjun Appadurai is the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences at The New School, where he is also Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives. His books include.

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He has authored numerous books and scholarly articles, including Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Duke 2006) and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, (Minnesota 1996; Oxford India 1997). His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Italian.

In Fear of Small Numbers, Arjun Appadurai analyses the complex dynamics of these issues and offers solutions to some of the most challenging dilemmas plaguing today?s society. Appadurai provides a conceptually unique framework for understanding root causes of global violence by bringing clarity to controversial issues such as globalisation, terrorism, and a growing worldwide malevolence.