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Insurgent Encounters : Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Khasnabish, Alex, 1976- (Editor ), Juris, Jeffrey S., 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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-Cortes, 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, Stephane Couture, and Lorenzo Mosca
  • The possibilities, limits, and relevance of engaged ethnography / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish.