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Title Insurgent encounters : transnational activism, ethnography, & the political / Jeffrey S. Juris, Alex Khasnabish, editors.
Publisher Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

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Description xiii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN 9780822353492 cloth
0822353490 cloth
9780822353621 paperback
0822353628 paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-422) and index.
Contents Ethnography and activism within networked spaces of transnational encounter / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish -- Spaces of intentionality: race, class, and horizontality at the United States social forum / Jeffrey S. Juris -- Tracing the Zapatista rhizome, or, the ethnography of a transnationalized political imagination / Alex Khasnabish -- The possibilities and perils for scholar-activists and activist-scholars: reflections on the "feminist dialogues" / Manisha Desai -- From local ethnographies to global movement: experience, subjectivity, and power among four alter-globalization actors / Geoffrey Pleyers -- The global indigenous movement and "paradigm wars": international activism, network building, and transformative politics / Sylvia Escárcega -- Local and not-so-local exchanges: alternative economies, ethnography, and social science / David J. Hess -- The edge effects of alter-globalization protests: an ethnographic approach to summit-hopping in the post-Seattle period / Vinci Daro -- Transformations in engaged ethnography: knowledge, networks, and social movements / Maria Isabel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil, and Dana E. Powell -- Transformative ethnography and the world social forum: theories and practices of transformation / Giuseppe Caruso -- Activist ethnography and translocal solidarity / Paul Routledge -- Ethnographic approaches to the world social forum / Janet Conway -- The transnational struggle for information freedom / M.K. Sterpka -- This is what democracy looked like / Tish Stringer -- The cultural politics of free software and technology within the social forum process / Jeffrey S. Juris, Giuseppe Caruso, St¿phane Couture, and Lorenzo Mosca -- The possibilities, limits, and relevance of engaged ethnography / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish.
Library Class Anthrop F960
Subject Political anthropology.
Ethnology -- Political aspects.
Ethnology -- Sociological aspects.
Political activists.
Other Author Juris, Jeffrey S., 1971- editor.
Khasnabish, Alex, 1976- editor.

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