Multisituated : ethnography as diasporic praxis / Kaushik Sunder Rajan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Study and teaching (Higher).

Ethnology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Decolonization--Study and teaching (Higher).

Decolonization.

Critical pedagogy.

Racism in higher education.

Education and globalization.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 253 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography in light of contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is increasingly peopled by diasporic students and researchers, all of whom are accountable to multiple communities beyond the discipline. In this light, Sunder Rajan draws on his pedagogical experience and dialogues to reconceptualize ethnography as a multisituated practice of knowledge production, ethical interlocution, and political intervention. Such a multisituated ethnography responds to contemporary anthropology's myriad commitments as it privileges attention to questions of scale, comparison, and the politics of ethnographic encounters. Foregrounding the conditions of possibility and difficulty for those doing and teaching ethnography in the twenty-first-century, Sunder Rajan gestures toward an ethos and praxis of ethnography that would open new forms of engagement and research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Scale

2. Comparison

3. Encounter

4. Dialogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- Multisituated.

ISBN:

9781478013983

1478013982

9781478014928

147801492X

OCLC:

1231548440

Publisher Number:

99989723765