Insurgent Encounters : Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juris, Jeffrey S.

Contributor:

Khasnabish, Alexander.

Khasnabish, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Political aspects.

Ethnology--Sociological aspects.

Political activists.

Political anthropology.

Political anthropology--Political aspects.

Ethnology.

Local Subjects:

Ethnology--Political aspects.

Ethnology--Sociological aspects.

Political activists.

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9780822395867

082239586X

OCLC:

842885299