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Format: 1 online resource (464 p.) : , 12 illustrations

ISBN: 9780822395867

Content: Insurgent Encounters illuminates the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, including those advocating for women and indigenous groups, environmental justice, and alternative—cooperative rather than exploitative—forms of globalization. The contributors are politically engaged scholars working within the social movements they analyze. Their essays are both models of and arguments for activist ethnography. They demonstrate that such a methodology has the potential to reveal empirical issues and generate theoretical insights beyond the reach of traditional social-movement research methods. Activist ethnographers not only produce new understandings of contemporary forms of collective action, but also seek to contribute to struggles for social change. The editors suggest networks and spaces of encounter as the most useful conceptual rubrics for understanding shape-shifting social movements using digital and online technologies to produce innovative forms of political organization across local, regional, national, and transnational scales. A major rethinking of the practice and purpose of ethnography, Insurgent Encounters challenges dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism.Contributors. Giuseppe Caruso, Maribel Casas-Cortés, Janet Conway, Stéphane Couture, Vinci Daro, Manisha Desai, Sylvia Escárcega, David Hess, Jeffrey S. Juris, Alex Khasnabish, Lorenzo Mosca, Michal Osterweil, Geoffrey Pleyers, Dana E. Powell, Paul Routledge, M. K. Sterpka, Tish Stringer

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction. Ethnography and Activism within Networked Spaces of Transnational Encounter -- , 1. Spaces of Intentionality. Race, Class, and Horizontality at the U.S. Social Forum -- , 2. Tracing the Zapatista Rhizome, or, the Ethnography of a Transnationalized Political Imagination -- , 3. The Possibilities and Perils for Scholar-Activists and Activist-Scholars. Reflections on the Feminist Dialogues -- , 4. From Local Ethnographies to Global Movement. Experience, Subjectivity, and Power among Four Alter-globalization Actors -- , 5. The Global Indigenous Movement and Paradigm Wars. International Activism, Network Building, and Transformative Politics -- , 6. Local and Not-So- Local Exchanges. Alternative Economies, Ethnography, and Social Science -- , 7. The Edge Effects of Alter-globalization Protests. An Ethnographic Approach to Summit Hopping in the Post-Seattle Period -- , 8. Transformations in Engaged Ethnography. Knowledge, Networks, and Social Movements -- , 9. Transformative Ethnography and the World Social Forum. Theories and Practices of Transformation -- , 10. Activist Ethnography and Translocal Solidarity -- , 11. Ethnographic Approaches to the World Social Forum -- , 12. The Transnational Struggle for Information Freedom -- , 13. This Is What Democracy Looked Like -- , 14. The Cultural Politics of Free Software and Technology within the Social Forum Process -- , Conclusion. The Possibilities, Limits, and Relevance of Engaged Ethnography -- , References -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822395867

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395867

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822395867

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395867

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822395867