Acknowledgments  xi

Abbreviations  xv

Introduction. Ethnography and Activism within Networked Spaces of Transnational Encounter / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish  1

Emerging Subjectivities  

1. Spaces of Intentionality: Race, Class, and Horizontality at the U.S. Social Forum / Jeffrey S. Juris  39

2. Tracing the Zapatista Rhizome, or, the Ethnography of a Transnationalized Political Imagination / Alex Khasnabish  66

3. The Possibilities and Perils for Scholar-Activists and Activist-Scholars: Reflections on the Feminist Dialogues / Manisha Desai  89

4. From Local Ethnographies to Global Movement: Experience, Subjectivity, and Power among Four Alter-globalization Actors / Geoffrey Pleyers  108

Discrepant Paradigms  

5. The Global Indigenous Movement and Paradigm Wars: International Activism, Network Building, and Transformative Politics / Sylvia Escárcega  129

6. Local and Not-So-Local Exchanges: Alternative Economies, Ethnography, and Social Science / David J. Hess  151

7. The Edge Effects of Alter-globalization Protests: An Ethnographic Approach to Summit Hopping in the Post-Seattle Period / Vinci Daro  171

Transformational Knowledges  

8. Transformation in Engaged Ethnography: Knowledge, Networks, and Social Movements / Maria Isabel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil, and Dana E. Powell  199

9. Transformative Ethnography and the World Social Forum: Theories and Practices of Transformation / Giuseppe Caruso  229

10. Activist Ethnography and Translocal Solidarity / Paul Routledge  250

11. Ethnographic Approaches to the World Social Forum / Janet Conway  269

Subversive Technologies  

12. The Transnational Struggle for Information Freedom / M. K. Sterpka  295

13. This Is What Democracy Looked Like / Tish Stringer  318

14. The Cultural Politics of Free Software and Technology within the Social Forum Process / Jeffrey S. Juris, Guiseppe Caruso, Stéphane Couture, and Lorenzo Mosca  342

Conclusion. The Possibilities, Limits, and Relevance of Engaged Ethnography / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish  367

References  391

Contributors  423

Index  427

Jeffrey S. Juris

Alex Khasnabish

Manisha Desai

Geoffrey Pleyers

Sylvia Escárcega

David J. Hess

Vinci Daro

Maria Isabel Casas-Cortés

Michal Osterweil

Dana E. Powell

Giuseppe Caruso

Paul Routledge

Janet Conway

M. K. Sterpka

Tish Stringer

Stéphane Couture

Lorenzo Mosca

"This important collection represents the best work by anthropologists who are reshaping ethnography 'of' and 'for' social movements. No other book addresses the present-day intersection and increasingly mutual identification of anthropological research and social-movement activism as thoroughly or comprehensively as this does. What's more, one gets the sense that the essays derive from a working community of activist-scholars living up to the vision of 'network' that the volume itself exemplifies. For me, the collection as an artifact and enactment of the kinds of collaboration that it discusses is one of its most fascinating features."—George E. Marcus, coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

"Insurgent Encounters is an exciting and timely collection. It treats topics of great interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, especially those concerned with ethnography, social movements, and activist scholarship. I am convinced that the engagement of activist ethnography with transnational social movements has the power to transform the disciplines, and ethnography, in interesting ways."—Michael Hardt, coauthor of the books Commonwealth, Multitude, and Empire

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