ISBN:
082239586X
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0822353490
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0822353628
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9780822395867
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9780822353492
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9780822353621
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 444 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Insurgent encounters
DDC:
306.2
Schlagwort(e):
Political anthropology
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Ethnology Sociological aspects
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Political activists
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Ethnology Political aspects
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Ethnology ; Political aspects
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Ethnology ; Sociological aspects
;
Political activists
;
Political anthropology
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
〈DIV〉Politically engaged ethnographers examine the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, challenging dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism.〈/div〉
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Ethnography and Activism within Networked Spaces of Transnational Encounter - Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish; Emerging Subjectivities; 1. Spaces of Intentionality Race, Class, and Horizontality at the U.S. Social Forum - Jeffrey S. Juris; 2. Tracing the Zapatista Rhizome, or, the Ethnography of a Transnationalized Political Imagination - Alex Khasnabish; 3. The Possibilities and Perils for Scholar-Activists and Activist-Scholars Reflections on the Feminist Dialogues - Manisha Desai
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
4. From Local Ethnographies to Global Movement Experience, Subjectivity, and Power among Four Alter-globalization Actors - Geoffrey PleyersDiscrepant Paradigms; 5. The Global Indigenous Movement and Paradigm Wars International Activism, Network Building, and Transformative Politics - Sylvia Escárcega; 6. Local and Not-So-Local Exchanges Alternative Economies, Ethnography, and Social Science - David J. Hess; 7. The Edge Effects of Alter-globalization Protests An Ethnographic Approach to Summit Hopping in the Post-Seattle Period - Vinci Daro; Transformational Knowledges
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
8. Transformations in Engaged Ethnography Knowledge, Networks, and Social Movements - Maribel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil and Dana E. Powell9. Transformative Ethnography and the World Social Forum Theories and Practices of Transformation - Giuseppe Caruso; 10. Activist Ethnography and Translocal Solidarity - Paul Routledge; 11. Ethnographic Approaches to the World Social Forum - Janet Conway; Subversive Technologies; 12. The Transnational Struggle for Information Freedom - M. K. Sterpka; 13. This Is What Democracy Looked Like - Tish Stringer
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
14. The Cultural Politics of Free Software and Technology within the Social Forum Process - Jeffrey S. Juris, Giuseppe Caruso, Stéphane Couture and Lorenzo MoscaConclusion: The Possibilities, Limits, and Relevance of Engaged Ethnography - Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish; References; Contributors; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-422) and index
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