Insurgent encounters : transnational activism, ethnography, and the political / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish, eds.
| Other author | Juris, Jeffrey S., 1971- |
| Other author | Khasnabish, Alex, 1976- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013. |
| Description | xv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-422) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012044746 |
| ISBN | 9780822353492 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822353490 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822353621 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822353628 (pbk. : alk. paper) |