{"product_id":"insurgent-encounters-transnational-activism-ethnography-and-the-political-paperback","title":"Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey S. Juris\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlex Khasnabish\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInsurgent Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eInsurgent Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e challenges dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Giuseppe Caruso, Maribel Casas-Cortés, Janet Conway, Stéphane Couture, Vinci Daro, Manisha Desai, Sylvia Escárcega, David Hess, Jeffrey S. Juris, Alex Khasnabish, Lorenzo Mosca, Michal Osterweil, Geoffrey Pleyers, Dana E. Powell, Paul Routledge, M. K. Sterpka, Tish Stringer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey S. Juris is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNetworking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Democracy and the World Social Forums\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Khasnabish is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eZapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 472\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924582924595,"sku":"9780822353621","price":71.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MnpNMXJZVTVPUWt2dnhGWEl1U0dxdz09.webp?v=1793832628","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/insurgent-encounters-transnational-activism-ethnography-and-the-political-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}