Ethnographies Of Power

Author : Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209808

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Ethnographies of Power by Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar Pdf

Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.

Author : Sharad Chari,Mark Hunter,Melanie Samson,Jennifer A Devine,Michael Ekers,Jennifer Greenburg,Bridget Kenny,Stefan Kipfer,Zachary Levenson,Alex Loftus,Ahmed Veriava
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776147717

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Ethnographies of Power by Sharad Chari,Mark Hunter,Melanie Samson,Jennifer A Devine,Michael Ekers,Jennifer Greenburg,Bridget Kenny,Stefan Kipfer,Zachary Levenson,Alex Loftus,Ahmed Veriava Pdf

Working with key concepts from theorist and human geographer Gillian Hart, this book argues for an ethnographic and geographic approach to critically engage contemporary political-economic processes in the context of real world struggles.

Author : Cris Shore,Susan Wright,Davide Però
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857451170

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Policy Worlds by Cris Shore,Susan Wright,Davide Però Pdf

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new sets of relations. Anthropologists do not stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them.

Author : Timothy Pachirat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351329620

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Among Wolves by Timothy Pachirat Pdf

Summoned by an anonymous Prosecutor, ten contemporary ethnographers gather in an aging barn to hold a trial of Alice Goffman’s controversial ethnography, On the Run. But before the trial can get underway, a one-eyed wolfdog arrives with a mysterious liquid potion capable of rendering the ethnographers invisible in their fieldsites. Presented as a play that unfolds in seven acts, the ensuing drama provides readers with both a practical guide for how to conduct immersive participant-observation research and a sophisticated theoretical engagement with the relationship between ethnography as a research method and the operation of power. By interpolating "how-to" aspects of ethnographic research with deeper questions about ethnography’s relationship to power, this book presents a compelling introduction for those new to ethnography and rich theoretical insights for more seasoned ethnographic practitioners from across the social sciences. Just as ethnography as a research method depends crucially on serendipity, surprise, and an openness to ambiguity, the book’s dramatic and dialogic format encourages novices and experts alike to approach the study of power in ways that resist linear programs and dogmatic prescriptions. The result is a playful yet provocative invitation to rekindle those foundational senses of wonder and generative uncertainty that are all too often excluded from conversations about the methodologies and methods we bring to the study of the social world.

Author : Carol Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0429324650

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Power in Conservation by Carol Carpenter Pdf

This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden--conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern and affect peoples and ecologies. This book argues that being able to think deeply, particularly about power, improves conservation policy-making and practice. Political ecology is by far the most well-known and well-published approach to thinking about power in conservation. This book analyzes the relatively neglected but robust anthropology of conservation literature on politics and power outside political ecology, especially literature rooted in Foucault. It is intended to make four of Foucault's concepts of power accessible, concepts that are most used in the anthropology of conservation: the power of discourses, discipline and governmentality, subject formation, and neoliberal governmentality. The important ethnographic literature that these concepts have stimulated is also examined. Together, theory and ethnography underpin our emerging understanding of a new, Anthropocene-shaped world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, environmental anthropology, and political ecology, as well as conservation practitioners and policy-makers.

Author : Elaine J. Lawless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253042996

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Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women's Narratives by Elaine J. Lawless Pdf

Folklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has consistently focused her research on women's speech in these contexts and has developed a new approach to ethnographic research which she calls "reciprocal ethnography," while growing a detailed corpus of work on women's narrative style and expressive speech. Reciprocal ethnography is a feminist and collaborative ethnographic approach that Lawless developed as a challenge to the reflexive turn in anthropological fieldwork and research in the 1970s, which was often male-centric, ignoring the contributions by and study of women's culture. Collected here for the first time are Lawless's key articles on the topics of reciprocal ethnography and women's narrative which influenced not only folklore, but also the allied fields of anthropology, sociology, performance studies, and women's and gender studies. Lawless's methods and research continue to be critically relevant in today's global struggle for gender equality.

Author : Edward Schatz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226736785

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Political Ethnography by Edward Schatz Pdf

Scholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospitable to qualitative methods of research. Lauding the results of this effort and highlighting its potential for the future, Political Ethnography makes a compelling case for one such method in particular. Ethnography, the contributors amply demonstrate in a wide range of original essays, is uniquely suited for illuminating the study of politics. Situating these pieces within the context of developments in political science, Edward Schatz provides an overarching introduction and substantive prefaces to each of the volume’s four sections. The first of these parts addresses the central ontological and epistemological issues raised by ethnographic work, while the second grapples with the reality that all research is conducted from a first-person perspective. The third section goes on to explore how ethnographic research can provide fresh perspectives on such perennial topics as opinion, causality, and power. Concluding that political ethnography can and should play a central role in the field as a whole, the final chapters illuminate the many ways in which ethnographic approaches can enhance, improve, and, in some areas, transform the study of politics.

Author : Sharad Chari,Mark Hunter,Melanie Samson,Jennifer A Devine,Michael Ekers,Jennifer Greenburg,Bridget Kenny,Stefan Kipfer,Zachary Levenson,Alex Loftus,Ahmed Veriava
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776146666

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Ethnographies of Power by Sharad Chari,Mark Hunter,Melanie Samson,Jennifer A Devine,Michael Ekers,Jennifer Greenburg,Bridget Kenny,Stefan Kipfer,Zachary Levenson,Alex Loftus,Ahmed Veriava Pdf

Working with key concepts from theorist and human geographer Gillian Hart, this book argues for an ethnographic and geographic approach to critically engage contemporary political-economic processes in the context of real world struggles.

Author : Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209792

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Ethnographies of Power by Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar Pdf

Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.

Author : Michael Burawoy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520073223

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Ethnography Unbound by Michael Burawoy Pdf

"Establishes a new landmark in the study of everyday life in the modern metropolis. This book brilliantly integrates systematic theory and participant observation data. Forms of domination and resistance are poignantly captured in different social settings, and admirably related to economic and political forces. The volume will do more to enhance ethnographic research than any previous study in sociology."—William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago "What is unleashed in Ethnography Unbound is the theoretical and critical potential of exemplary urban fieldwork and pedagogy. This book by Michael Burawoy and his talented students sets an inspirational standard to emulate in the classroom and in the 'field'."—Judith Stacey, author of Brave New Families "Bravo! A book that explodes the barriers that prevent us from seeing, simultaneously, both the social world and our role in its making. The dichotomies of teacher/student, researcher/researched, and theory/data are subjected to a penetrating and refreshing scrutiny in this unique project."—Rick Fantasia, author of Cultures of Solidarity "Burawoy and his colleagues have rediscovered the ancient truth that participant observation is well-suited to understanding the larger society as well as microsocial life. Moreover, they have made that rediscovery superbly. The essays are of high quality and I hope that the book will increase yet further the current interest in participant observation and ethnography."—Herbert J. Gans, author of People, Plans and Policies

Author : SHARAD. HUNTER CHARI (MARK. SAMSON, MELANIE.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1776146832

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Ethnographies of Power by SHARAD. HUNTER CHARI (MARK. SAMSON, MELANIE.) Pdf

Author : Anna Fedele,Kim E. Knibbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780415659475

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Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality by Anna Fedele,Kim E. Knibbe Pdf

Contemporary distinctions between religion and spirituality can often be traced to rebellion against hierarchical institutions with biases towards women and minorities that constrain individual freedom. This opposition is carefully addressed in this volume, with greater attention paid to gender and power in the context of contemporary spirituality and how these relate to the distinction between religion and spirituality.

Author : Sharad Chari,Jennifer Devine,Michael Ekers,Jennifer Greenburg,Mark Hunter,BRIDGET KENNY,Stefan Kipfer,Zachary Levenson,Alex Loftus,Melanie Samson,ahmed veriava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1776146778

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Ethnographies of Power by Sharad Chari,Jennifer Devine,Michael Ekers,Jennifer Greenburg,Mark Hunter,BRIDGET KENNY,Stefan Kipfer,Zachary Levenson,Alex Loftus,Melanie Samson,ahmed veriava Pdf

What does it mean to work with radical concepts in our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, racial/sexual/class violence and ecocide? When concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do scholars and activists concerned with social change decide what concepts to work with or renew? The contributors to Ethnographies of Power address these questions head on. Gillian Hart is a key thinker in radical political economy, geography, development studies, agrarian studies and Gramscian critique of postcolonial capitalism. In Ethnographies of Power each contributor engages her work and applies it to their own field of study. These applied concepts include: 'gendered labour' practices among South African workers, reading 'racial capitalism' through agrarian debates, using 'relational comparison' in an ethnography of schooling across Durban, reworking 'multiple socio-spatial trajectories' in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africa's 'second economy', revisiting 'development' processes and 'Development' discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramsci's 'conjunctures' geographically, finding divergent 'articulations' in Cape Town land occupations, and exploring 'nationalism' as central to revaluing recyclables at a Soweto landfill. Ethnographies of Power offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for the social and environmental change necessary for our collective future.

Author : Raymond Fogelson,Richard Newbold Adams
Publisher : New York : Academic Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCSD:31822011854536

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The Anthropology of Power by Raymond Fogelson,Richard Newbold Adams Pdf

Author : Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030769267

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Challenging Authorities by Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa Pdf

When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings.