Global Ethnography Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World

Name: Global Ethnography Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
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ISBN: 9780520222168

ISBN-10: 0520222164

ISBN-13: 9780520222168

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael Burawoy, Joseph A. Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan

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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…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Zsuzsa Gille grew up in socialist Hungary and was active in semi-legal environmental and peace movements. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign.



Preface



Introduction: Reaching for the Global




Global Forces



Global Discourses of Need: Mythologizing and Pathologizing Welfare in Hungary




Excavating "Globalization" from Street Level: Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts




Degradation without Deskilling: Twenty-Five Years in the San Francisco Shipyards




Global Connections



"Dirty Nurses" and "Men Who Play": Gender and Class in Transnational Migration




Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace




Traveling Feminisms: From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship




Global Imaginations



Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland: Multinational Capital and Greens Vie for Village Allegiance




Contesting the Global City: Pittsburgh's Public Service Unions Confront a Neoliberal Agenda




From Private Stigma to Global Assembly: Transforming the Terrain of Breast Cancer



Conclusion



Grounding Globalization



Bibliography


Index