Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political by

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Politically engaged ethnographers examine the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, challenging dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism.

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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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Insurgent Encounters illuminates the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, including those advocating for women and indigenous groups, environmental justice, and alternative forms of globalization.

Author Biography

Jeffrey S. Juris is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. He is the author of Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization, also published by Duke University Press, and coauthor of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums.Alex Khasnabish is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. He is the author of Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global and Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiAbbreviations xvIntroduction. Ethnography and Activism within Networked Spaces of Transnational Encounter / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish 1Emerging Subjectivities 1. Spaces of Intentionality: Race, Class, and Horizontality at the U.S. Social Forum / Jeffrey S. Juris 392. Tracing the Zapatista Rhizome, or, the Ethnography of a Transnationalized Political Imagination / Alex Khasnabish 663. The Possibilities and Perils for Scholar-Activists and Activist-Scholars: Reflections on the Feminist Dialogues / Manisha Desai 894. From Local Ethnographies to Global Movement: Experience, Subjectivity, and Power among Four Alter-globalization Actors / Geoffrey Pleyers 108Discrepant Paradigms 5. The Global Indigenous Movement and Paradigm Wars: International Activism, Network Building, and Transformative Politics / Sylvia Escárcega 1296. Local and Not-So-Local Exchanges: Alternative Economies, Ethnography, and Social Science / David J. Hess 1517. The Edge Effects of Alter-globalization Protests: An Ethnographic Approach to Summit Hopping in the Post-Seattle Period / Vinci Daro 171Transformational Knowledges 8. Transformation in Engaged Ethnography: Knowledge, Networks, and Social Movements / Maria Isabel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil, and Dana E. Powell 1999. Transformative Ethnography and the World Social Forum: Theories and Practices of Transformation / Giuseppe Caruso 22910. Activist Ethnography and Translocal Solidarity / Paul Routledge 25011. Ethnographic Approaches to the World Social Forum / Janet Conway 269Subversive Technologies 12. The Transnational Struggle for Information Freedom / M. K. Sterpka 29513. This Is What Democracy Looked Like / Tish Stringer 31814. The Cultural Politics of Free Software and Technology within the Social Forum Process / Jeffrey S. Juris, Guiseppe Caruso, Stéphane Couture, and Lorenzo Mosca 342Conclusion. The Possibilities, Limits, and Relevance of Engaged Ethnography / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish 367References 391Contributors 423Index 427

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"Insurgent Encounters is an exciting and timely collection. It treats topics of great interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, especially those concerned with ethnography, social movements, and activist scholarship. I am convinced that the engagement of activist ethnography with transnational social movements has the power to transform the disciplines, and ethnography, in interesting ways." - Michael Hardt, coauthor of The books Commonwealth, Multitude, and Empire "This important collection represents the best work by anthropologists who are reshaping ethnography 'of' and 'for' social movements. No other book addresses the present-day intersection and increasingly mutual identification of anthropological research and social-movement activism as thoroughly or comprehensively as this does. What's more, one gets the sense that the essays derive from a working community of activist-scholars living up to the vision of 'network' that the volume itself exemplifies. For me, the collection as an artifact and enactment of the kinds of collaboration that it discusses is one of its most fascinating features." - George E. Marcus, coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

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"This new collection of essays edited by Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khasnabish is a refreshing and welcome contribution to the study of social movements.... this is a theoretically sophisticated and engaging collection of essays, and a welcome contribution to our understanding of radical social movements."

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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 forms of globalization.

Details ISBN0822353628 Short Title INSURGENT ENCOUNTERS Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822353628 ISBN-13 9780822353621 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2013 Author Alex Khasnabish Pages 472 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Alex Khasnabish Birth 1971 UK Release Date 2013-04-12 AU Release Date 2013-04-12 NZ Release Date 2013-04-12 US Release Date 2013-04-12 Publication Date 2013-04-12 DEWEY 322.4 Illustrations 12 illustrations Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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