Global ethnography : forces, connections, and imaginations in a postmodern world / Michael Burawoy ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burawoy, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

xv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]

Summary:

In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues once more break the bounds of conventional sociology, this time to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In a series of ethnographies, contributors explore the lives of upwardly mobile Kerala nurses, job-hopping Irish software programmers, welfare clients and environmentalists in postsocialist Hungary, Brazilian feminist activists, as well as homeless recyclers, breast cancer activists, unionists, and despairing shipyard workers in a booming U.S. economy. This collaborative research resulted in its own distinctive method of "grounded globalization", to grasp the evaporation of traditional workplaces, the dissolution of enclaved communities, and the fluidity of identities. Forged between the local and global, these compelling essays make a powerful case for ethnography's insight into global dynamics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-373) and index.

ISBN:

0520222156

0520222164

OCLC:

42652770