"At last world.com meets ethnography.eudora. This book shows how
ethnography can have a global reach and a global relevance, its
humanistic and direct methods actually made more not less relevant
by recent developments in global culture and economy. Globalisation
is not a singular, unilinear process, fatalistically unfolding
towards inevitable ends: it entails gaps, contradictions,
counter-tendencies, and marked unevenness. And just as capital
flows more freely around the globe, so do human ideas and
imaginings, glimpses of other possible futures. These elements all
interact in really existing sites, situations and localities, not
in outer space or near-earth orbit. Unprefigurably, they are taken
up into all kinds of local meanings-makings by active humans
struggling and creating with conditions on the ground, so producing
new kinds of meanings and identities, themselves up for export on
the world market. This book, conceptually rich, empirically
concrete, shows how global neo-liberalism spawns a grounded
globalisation, ethnographically observable, out of which is
emerging the mosaic of a new kind of global civil society. As this
book so richly shows, tracing the lineaments of these possibilities
and changes is the special province of ethnography."--Paul Willis,
author of "Learning to Labor and editor of the journal "Ethnography
"The authors of "Global Ethnography" bring globalization 'down
to earth' and show us how it impacts the everyday lives of Kerala
nurses, U.S. homeless recyclers, Irish software programmers,
Hungarian welfare recipients, Brazilian feminists, and a host of
other protagonists in a global postmodern world. This is superb
ethnography -- refreshing and vividdescriptions grounded in
historical and social contexts with important theoretical
implications."--Louise Lamphere, President of the American
Anthropological Association
"The global inhabits and constitutes specific structuration of
the political, economic, cultural, and subjective. How to study
this is a challenge. "Global Ethnography" makes an enormous
contribution to this effort."--Saskia Sassen, author of
"Globalization and Its Discontents"
"This fascinating volume will quickly find its place in
fieldwork courses, but it should also be read by transnationalists
and students of the political economy, economic sociologists,
methodologists of all stripes--and doubting
macrosociologists."--Herbert J. Gans, Robert S. Lynd Professor of
Sociology, Columbia University
"Not only matches the originality and quality of "Ethnography
Unbound, but raises the ante by literally expanding the
methodological and analytical repertory of ethnographic sociology
to address the theoretical and logistical challenges of a
globalized discipline and social world."--Judith Stacey, author of
"In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the
Postmodern Age
"In the best traditions of radical Berkeley scholarship,
Burawoy's collective recaptures the ground(s) of an engaged
sociology embedded in the culturalpolitics of the global without
losing the ethnographer's magic--the local touch."--Nancy
Scheper-Hughes, author of "Death without Weeping
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