Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection /

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"A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Globalização.
Etnologia.
Relações econômicas internacionais.
Comunicação internacional.
Internationalisatie.
Interculturele communicatie.
Cultuurconflicten.
Regenwouden.
International relations.
International economic relations.
Intercultural communication.
Globalization.
Ethnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
ethnology.
social anthropology.
globalism.
international relations.
Mondialisation.
Ethnologie.
Relations internationales.
Relations economiques internationales.
Communication interculturelle.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PROSPERITY: "Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up"
  • Frontiers of capitalism
  • "They communicate only in sign language"
  • The economy of appearances
  • KNOWLEDGE: "Let a new Asia and a new Africa be born"
  • Natural universals and the global scale
  • "Dark rays"
  • Nature loving
  • "This earth, this island Borneo"
  • A history of weediness
  • FREEDOM: "A hair in the flour"
  • Movements
  • "Facilities and incentives"
  • The forest of collaborations.

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