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Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
Michael Burawoy
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Description for Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
Paperback. Explores the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. This book shows how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 b/w photo. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 780. Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. 408 pages, port. Explores the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. This book shows how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHMP. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 24. Weight: 572.
In this follow-up to the highly successful "Ethnography Unbound", Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse struggles over extending citizenship, medicalizing breast cancer, dumping toxic waste, privatizing nursing homes, the degradation of work, the withdrawal of welfare rights, and the elaboration of body politics. From their insider vantage points, they show ... Read more
In this follow-up to the highly successful "Ethnography Unbound", Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse struggles over extending citizenship, medicalizing breast cancer, dumping toxic waste, privatizing nursing homes, the degradation of work, the withdrawal of welfare rights, and the elaboration of body politics. From their insider vantage points, they show ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
580g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520222168
SKU
V9780520222168
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About Michael Burawoy
All of the authors were affiliated with the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
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