Nov 29, 2022
3 min read
To Question the Power is to ‘Cancel’ It
On Arjun Appadurai’s ‘Fear of Small Numbers’
You’re a minority whenever you raise your hand in a meeting to disagree with the way the group is leaning. In that one political sense, as Arjun Appadurai explains in Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006), a “minority” is “not an ethical or cultural idea but a procedural one” that surrounds the…
