The ethnography of the global after globalization

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ID2228033
AuthorsDaromir Rudnyckyj (0000-0003-3940-4881, University of Victoria, corresponding author), Jerome Whitington (New York University)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue3
Pages1042-1045
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
PublisherHAU-N.E.T (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1086/712095
OpenAlexW3093109218
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and disciplinary retrenchment, they offer a model for reengagement with the global. Critical work in anthropology over a decade ago was published when optimism over a "borderless world" still held sway. In the intervening years, globalization has bequeathed a world of viral contagion, authoritarian nationalism, immigration backlash, sclerotic trade regimes, and intensifying ecological crisis. Nonetheless, if the promise of globalization appears to have evaporated, global problems have redoubled in their importance for an engaged anthropology, as both the recent resurgence of nationalism and the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate. This collection of essays features research and reflection that address the global as a problem space through middle-range analysis. Inspired by the landmark work of Aihwa Ong, the essays embody a distinctive form of ethnographic engagement with the contemporary global

Authoritarianism · Chauvinism · Democracy · Discipline · Ethnography · Globalization · Impossibility · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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