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Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691263515
ISBN-139780691263519
eBay Product ID (ePID)17065346246
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFriction : an Ethnography of Global Connection
Publication Year2024
SubjectGlobalization, Anthropology / General, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2025-417187
Reviews" Friction is an original, nuanced, and elegant work of ethnography and a significant contribution to the areas of globalization; environment and natural resource wars; the politics of indigenous peoples, NGOs, and development; and the sociology of expert versus local knowledge." ---Michael Goldman, American Journal of Sociology, "By providing generous anecdotes and personal reflections amidst more complex, insightful political commentary and social theory, [Tsing] achieves a writing style that is both pleasurable and informative." ---Laura L. B. Graham, Environment and Planning
Dewey Edition23/eng/20241017
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.48/2
SynopsisCo-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Society What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of cultures, developing friction as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. Focusing on the social drama of the Indonesian rainforests in the 1980s and 1990s, she shows how a host of competing interests--from environmentalists and North American investors to advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, international funding agencies, and village elders--are drawn into unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Now with a new preface by the author, Friction provides an invaluable portfolio of methods for the study of global interconnections., A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a "clash" of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. She focuses on one particular "zone of awkward engagement"--the rainforests of Indonesia--where in the 1980s and the 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them.Not confined to a village, a province, or a nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforest includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, UN funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students, among others--all combining in unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out.Providing a portfolio of methods to study global interconnections, Tsing shows how curious and creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global., Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. It shows how creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how it is overlooked in theories of the global.
LC Classification NumberGN345.6.T75 2024
