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Insurgent Encounters - Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political (Paperback, New)
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Insurgent Encounters - Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political (Paperback, New)
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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-Cortes, Janet Conway, Stephane Couture, Vinci Daro, Manisha
Desai, Sylvia Escarcega, David Hess, Jeffrey S. Juris, Alex
Khasnabish, Lorenzo Mosca, Michal Osterweil, Geoffrey Pleyers, Dana
E. Powell, Paul Routledge, M. K. Sterpka, Tish Stringer
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