Dear Friends and Colleagues
I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to you because my book The Act of Living is finally out with Cornell University Press.
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This book is an exploration of the intertwining of history and becoming, action and living. With a focus on the lives of hustlers on the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I show how getting by and surviving are not mere experiences of letting oneself live and breathe. They are what ultimately enables the actualization of existence as a site of possibility and reversibility.
By narrating marginality through acts of living, I document how action and living are made of attempts to be something other than one’s constraints while remaining firmly embedded within experiences of subjugation and exclusion. This is a tension that remains fundamentally unresolved. Yet, as it endures unresolved, this tension is a fertile terrain for the elaboration of existential and moral concerns about open-endedness, respect, chance, the self, and the future.
I embark on this journey by telling the stories of two men whom I call, respectively, “Haile” and “Ibrahim,” as they seek to navigate their condition of marginality in a time of promise and economic growth. By documenting how these two life trajectories intertwine with other urban lives as well as the unfolding of Ethiopia’s urban history, The Act of Living explores why development continues to fail the poor, how marginality is understood and acted upon in a time of promise, and why poor people’s claims for open-endedness can constitute the grounds on which to imagine better and more just alternative futures.
The book is now available for purchase with a 30% discount if you order it through www.combinedacademic.co.uk<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/> – use the discount code CS09FLYER
If you are in the US, order it through www.cornellpress.cornell.edu<http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/> and use the discount code 09FLYER
Finally, if you think your institution would be interested to host a presentation based on the research that informed the book, I would be happy to come and resume our conversation, whether it has continued since or was just a quick chat you might not even remember!
Warm regards,
Marco
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