The Ethnography of Transnational Social Activism

Understanding the Global as Local Practice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2467996
AutoresHilary Cunningham (University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen26
Número3
Páginas583-604
Fecha de publicación1999-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1999.26.3.583
OpenAlexW2142658753
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas42
Referencias citadas17

Through a study of two contemporary U.S. religio-political movements, I analyze globalization as a process in which social actors appropriate distinctive kinds of global imagery and rhetoric to create new forms of activism. I document and contrast the development of transnational identities among two groups of political activists and examine the unique but shifting historical conditions underlying these differences. Rather than begin with "globalization" as a structural given, I explore the "global" as itself a constructed context of political identity and practice. I include a discussion of my own discovery that my anthropological terms of analysis were often shared by the second group of political activists under study, and I explore how and why this happened, [globalization, social movements, political economy and culture, global civil society

Ethnography · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies