Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of "Direct Action" is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years-against the Summit of the Americas in QuA(c)bec City. Written in a clear, accessible style (with a minimum of academic jargon), this study brings readers behind the scenes of a movement that has changed the terms of debate about world power relations. From informal conversations in coffee shops to large "spokescouncil" planning meetings and tear gas-drenched street actions, Graeber paints a vivid and fascinating picture.Along the way, he addresses matters of deep interest to anthropologists: meeting structure and process, language, symbolism and representation, the specific rituals of activist culture, and much more. Starting from the assumption that, when dealing with possibilities of global transformation and emerging political forms, a disinterested, "objective" perspective is impossible, Graeber writes as both scholar and activist. At the same time, his experiment in the application of ethnographic methods to important ongoing political events is a serious and unique contribution to the field of anthropology, as well as an inquiry into anthropology's political implications.David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist who teaches at the University of London. Active in numerous direct-action political organizations, he has written for "Harper's Magazine" and is the author of "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology," "Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value," and "Possibilities."
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 政治學 美國 文化人類學 人類學 social-action politics anthropology
各種簡稱、縮寫、俚語、口語,看得我很有些惱火。但看完感覺還蠻歡樂的。什麼時候,“我們這兒”也來這麼一場direct action~~
評分有種振臂高呼的感覺,也是自戀意淫。好特麼繼續沒羞沒臊西方精英中心得很。
評分boring的日記體,展示社會動員的過程,賣點就是作者與其它activists之間怎麼磨閤和博弈的,各自揣個小九九地走到一起。。。Graeber還在緻謝部分黑瞭Yale一把~據說occupy wallstreet的那個口號99%就是他想齣來的。。。
評分抄送給研究社運的同學。。。看理論書看纍瞭看看這也挺好的!相當有意思!
評分有種振臂高呼的感覺,也是自戀意淫。好特麼繼續沒羞沒臊西方精英中心得很。
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