Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political

by Jeffrey S. Juris

Insurgent Encounters 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353628
• ISBN13: 9780822353621
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"