No Go World

How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics

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Pub Date Apr 02 2019 | Archive Date Oct 17 2019

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Description

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants—from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote “danger zones.” Instead of buying into apocalyptic visions, Andersson takes aim at how Western states and international organizations conduct military, aid, and border interventions in a dangerously myopic fashion, further disconnecting the world’s rich and poor. Using drones, proxy forces, border reinforcement, and outsourced aid, risk-obsessed powers are helping to remap the world into zones of insecurity and danger. The result is a vision of chaos crashing into fortified borders, with national and global politics riven by fear. Andersson contends that we must reconnect and snap out of this dangerous spiral, which affects us whether we live in Texas or Timbuktu. Only by developing a new cartography of hope can we move beyond the political geography of fear that haunts us.

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants—from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global...


Advance Praise

“‘The story of a world gone wild,’ writes Ruben Andersson. To this global wilderness, the anthropologist’s craft must adapt, in field research and in reporting. No Go World shows a way to do it and is destined to draw a wide readership.”—Ulf Hannerz, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and author of Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios

“One of the best books available on what is commonly perceived in the West as the ‘refugee crisis’ but is in fact a world rent by fear and conflict, with refugees as one symptom.”—Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, and former Director of the London School of Economics

“This beautifully written book takes us on a journey through the distanced interventions of the ‘war on terror,’ showing how, in these global times, efforts to push risk ever further away end up bringing it closer—creating the basis for a no go world. Full of ideas and stories, and with hope as well as pessimism, it is the sort of book that needs to be read slowly.”—Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, London School of Economics, and author of New and Old Wars

“‘The story of a world gone wild,’ writes Ruben Andersson. To this global wilderness, the anthropologist’s craft must adapt, in field research and in reporting. No Go World shows a way to do it and...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780520294608
PRICE $29.95 (USD)
PAGES 360