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9780520222168

Global Ethnography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520222168

  • ISBN10:

    0520222164

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This collection is an original approach to link the everyday lives of people and the issues of globalization. Each of the nine multi-locational ethnographies examine the way the global is experienced as supranational forces, as transnational connections, and as postnational imaginations.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction: Reaching for the Global
1(40)
Michael Burawoy
PART ONE GLOBAL FORCES 41(96)
Introduction to Part One
43(5)
Global Discourses of Need: Mythologizing and Pathologizing Welfare in Hungary
48(26)
Lynne Haney
Excavating ``Globalization'' from Street Level: Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts
74(32)
Teresa Gowan
Degradation without Deskilling: Twenty-Five Years in the San Francisco Shipyards
106(31)
Joseph A. Blum
PART TWO GLOBAL CONNECTIONS 137(98)
Introduction to Part Two
139(5)
``Dirty Nurses'' and ``Men Who Play'': Gender and Class in Transnational Migration
144(31)
Sheba George
Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace
175(28)
Sean O Riain
Traveling Feminisms: From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship
203(32)
Millie Thayer
PART THREE GLOBAL IMAGINATIONS 235(100)
Introduction to Part Three
237(3)
Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland: Multinational Capital and Greens Vie for Village Allegiance
240(28)
Zsuzsa Gille
Contesting the Global City: Pittsburgh's Public Service Unions Confront a Neoliberal Agenda
268(31)
Steven H. Lopez
From Private Stigma to Global Assembly: Transforming the Terrain of Breast Cancer
299(36)
Maren Klawiter
CONCLUSION 335(16)
Grounding Globalization
337(14)
Michael Buraway
Bibliography 351(24)
Index 375

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