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Ethnographers of the WorldÂ…United? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization
Journal of World-Systems Research
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Ethnographers of the WorldUnited? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization
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Lapegna, Pablo
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| Description |
How does ethnography come to terms with our current global condition? Being a method characterized by its in-depth knowledge of a bounded space, how does ethnography cope with a world scale? How does the global condition affect the definitions of key ethnographic concepts? In this article, I first reconstruct ethnographic debates regarding the status of the global, showing how ethnography can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the binary global/local. Then I review two projects that study global processes from an ethnographic point of view: multi-site ethnography (Marcus 1995) and global ethnography (Burawoy et al. 2000). I compare these two approaches along four dimensions: site, context, research design and reflexivity. I argue that while multi-site ethnography and global ethnography are often used interchangeably, each ultimately presents distinctive answers to key questions for the ethnographic study of global processes.
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
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2009-02-26
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/336
10.5195/jwsr.2009.336 |
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Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 15, Issue 1, 2009; 3-24
1076-156X |
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eng
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http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/336/348
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| Rights |
Copyright (c) 2015 Pablo Lapegna
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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