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Ethnography Unbound Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis

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ISBN-10: 0520073223

ISBN-13: 9780520073227

Edition: 1994

Authors: Michael Burawoy, Alice Burton, Ann Arnett Ferguson, Kathryn J. Fox, Joshua Gamson

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In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers can most effectively study the modern metropolis. With its twofold agenda, the volume emerges as a multi-layered dialogue between researcher and researched, participant and observer, educator and educated. These essays, produced in a refreshing collaborative effort by a senior scholar and ten graduate students, examine many facets of American urban life, among them new social movements that mobilize and work on behalf of people with AIDS and that fight against nuclear war; the decisive roles…    
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Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/18/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.13" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English