Remaindered Life

Neferti X. M. Tadiar's book Remaindered Life offers a new framework for rethinking the dynamics of global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. She focuses on remaindered life practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people, and examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 456 pages
Publication date: 15 July 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press

In her groundbreaking book "Remaindered Life," Neferti X. M. Tadiar presents a novel conceptual framework for reimagining the dynamics of a global capitalism sustained by perpetual imperial warfare. Tadiar's central focus lies in examining the practices of "remaindered life," which transcend the binary between life worth living and life worth expending. By employing this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of surplus life-making practices observed among migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. Furthermore, she delves into the works of artists and filmmakers from the Global South, who portray diverse forms of living amidst disposability. Through a retelling of the story of globalization from the perspective of those who exceed dominant protocols of living, Tadiar showcases how engaging with remaindered life offers a potential avenue for a radical reimagining of our current global mode of existence.

In her groundbreaking book "Remaindered Life," Neferti X. M. Tadiar presents a novel conceptual framework for reimagining the dynamics of a global capitalism sustained by perpetual imperial warfare. Tadiar's central focus lies in examining the practices of "remaindered life," which transcend the binary between life worth living and life worth expending. By employing this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of surplus life-making practices observed among migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. Furthermore, she delves into the works of artists and filmmakers from the Global South, who portray diverse forms of living amidst disposability. Through a retelling of the story of globalization from the perspective of those who exceed dominant protocols of living, Tadiar showcases how engaging with remaindered life offers a potential avenue for a radical reimagining of our current global mode of existence.

Weight: 662g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478017769