{"id":1337,"date":"2016-12-12T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/wp\/cemore\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:05:08","slug":"friction-cemore-reading-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/friction-cemore-reading-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Friction – CeMoRe Reading Group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mobilities\u00a0Reading<\/span>\u00a0Group<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Join us for a discussion this Wed Dec 14, 4-5pm (Mobilities Lab). Join in person or via skype.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Reading<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Friction: An Ethnography of\u00a0Global Connection\u00a0<\/i>by\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Anna Tsing.\u00a0<\/span>(Just the introduction!)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Abstract<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>Review<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“Friction<\/i>\u00a0is 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,\u00a0American Journal of Sociology<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mobilities\u00a0Reading\u00a0Group\u00a0 Join us for a discussion this Wed Dec 14, 4-5pm (Mobilities Lab). Join in person or via skype.\u00a0 \u00a0 Reading Friction: An Ethnography of\u00a0Global Connection\u00a0by\u00a0Anna Tsing.\u00a0(Just the introduction!) PDF Abstract Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a “clash” of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobilities-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}