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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey S Juris; Alex Khasnabish |
| ISBN: | 9780822353492 0822353490 9780822353621 0822353628 |
| OCLC Number: | 798061882 |
| Description: | xv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Ethnography and activism within networked spaces of transnational encounter / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish -- Spaces of intentionality: race, class, and horizontality at the United States social forum / Jeffrey S. Juris -- Tracing the Zapatista rhizome, or, the ethnography of a transnationalized political imagination / Alex Khasnabish -- The possibilities and perils for scholar-activists and activist-scholars: reflections on the "feminist dialogues" / Manisha Desai -- From local ethnographies to global movement: experience, subjectivity, and power among four alter-globalization actors / Geoffrey Pleyers -- The global indigenous movement and "paradigm wars": international activism, network building, and transformative politics / Sylvia Escárcega -- Local and not-so-local exchanges: alternative economies, ethnography, and social science / David J. Hess -- The edge effects of alter-globalization protests: an ethnographic approach to summit-hopping in the post-Seattle period / Vinci Daro -- Transformations in engaged ethnography: knowledge, networks, and social movements / Maria Isabel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil, and Dana E. Powell -- Transformative ethnography and the world social forum: theories and practices of transformation / Giuseppe Caruso -- Activist ethnography and translocal solidarity / Paul Routledge -- Ethnographic approaches to the world social forum / Janet Conway -- The transnational struggle for information freedom / M.K. Sterpka -- This is what democracy looked like / Tish Stringer -- The cultural politics of free software and technology within the social forum process / Jeffrey S. Juris, Giuseppe Caruso, St¿phane Couture, and Lorenzo Mosca -- The possibilities, limits, and relevance of engaged ethnography / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish. |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish, eds. |
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"Insurgent Encounters makes an important contribution to the ethnography of activism and should be widely read. . . . For those grappling with how to use ethnographic methods in activist research this edited volume will make for a good introduction into many of the dilemmas and insights into thinking through political engagement and transformational change." -- Junaid Rana * Journal of Anthropological Research * "In short, this is a bold experiment of what an activist-scholarhsip might look like, raising profound epistemological and ethical questions which only become more pressing as the ecological and social crises of this century deepen. I applaud the editors for their courage, and answer their call to bring a militant ethnography to the mainstream." -- Vita Peacock * Critique of Anthropology * "This new collection of essays edited by Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khasnabish is a refreshing and welcome contribution to the study of social movements.... this is a theoretically sophisticated and engaging collection of essays, and a welcome contribution to our understanding of radical social movements." -- Patrick C. Wilson * Labour/Le Travail * "The editors' writing will capture readers' attention and the stories, radical activist moments, and style of ethnographic writing in each subsequent case study will hold it...This collection represents an important advance in the study of social movements generally and transnational activism specifically as it is the first book to focus on the methods, perspectives and theoretical insights generated by ethnography." -- Julie A. Pelton * International Dialogue * "This important collection represents the best work by anthropologists who are reshaping ethnography 'of' and 'for' social movements. No other book addresses the present-day intersection and increasingly mutual identification of anthropological research and social-movement activism as thoroughly or comprehensively as this does. What's more, one gets the sense that the essays derive from a working community of activist-scholars living up to the vision of 'network' that the volume itself exemplifies. For me, the collection as an artifact and enactment of the kinds of collaboration that it discusses is one of its most fascinating features."-George E. Marcus, coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary "Insurgent Encounters is an exciting and timely collection. It treats topics of great interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, especially those concerned with ethnography, social movements, and activist scholarship. I am convinced that the engagement of activist ethnography with transnational social movements has the power to transform the disciplines, and ethnography, in interesting ways."-Michael Hardt, coauthor of the books Commonwealth, Multitude, and Empire Read more...
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- Political anthropology.
- Ethnology -- Political aspects.
- Ethnology -- Sociological aspects.
- Political activists.
- Politische Anthropologie
- Soziale Bewegung
- Aktivismus
- Transnationale Politik
- Solidarität
- Politisk antropologi.
- Etnologi -- politiska aspekter.
- Etnologi -- sociala aspekter.
- Politiska aktivister.
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