Juris, Jeffrey S. / Alex Khasnabish (Editors),

Insurgent Encounters – Transnational Activism, Ethnography, & the Political,

Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2013, gr.8°, XIII, 444 S. mit einigen s/w-Abb., Text: englisch, illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), insg. etwas gebrauchsspurig: die Einband-Ecken zart berieben und bestoßen, Vorderdeckel mit zartem Längsfältchen, im Buch (speziell zu Beginn) schon einigen An- und Unterstreichungen oder auch mal kurze Randmarginalien (fast alles zumeist mit Bleistift), sonst aber gut, als Arbeitsexemplar perfekt brauchbar, als repräsentatives Geschenk vielleicht eher weniger, der Zustand natürlich im Preis berücksichtigt (Cal2) (Nr. 40641AB)

Content: 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 Pleyers) —//— Discrepant 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. Transformation in Engaged Ethnography: Knowledge, Networks, and Social Movements (Maria Isabel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil, and Dana E. Powell) / 9. 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) 7 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, Guiseppe Caruso, Stéphane Couture, and Lorenzo Mosca) —//— Conclusion: The Possibilities, Limits, and Relevance of Engaged Ethnography (Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish) / References / Contributors