Politics (References) Flashcards
Globalisation is circulation of goods, technologies, ideas, people and capital, not just West to the rest.
Local resistance has formed anti-globalisation
Theodossopoulos, 2009
Understand of all forms; Above and Below (speak for poor vulnerable, part movements, part networks, part organisation)
Appadurai, 2001
Conspiracy theories are careful accumulation of ‘facts’, equally plausible concepts
Marcus, 1999
Treat as equally valid, cultural approach can disentangle conspiracy, not paranoid schizophrenic, but holistic attempt
Sutton, 2003
Radical forms of resistance have unintended consequences because state represses
Gledhill, 1994
Their are less organised, more pervasive and everyday forms of resistance
James Scott
Lack of ethnographic perspective, not understand culture as a whole, internal conflictions, dangerous distortions
Ortner, 1995
Peasant collaboration is important
White
Second hand clothing in Zambia has large cultural meaning, can stand for conformity, creativity or rebellion
Hansen, 1999
People in Endcliffe, Sheffield, unofficial work and work force system operates around kinship ties.
Mollona, 2005
Occult economies in South Africa, hard for ethnographers on awkward scale, supernatural transecting planes of reality
Comaroff & Comaroff 1999
‘Devil beliefs’ in Chachapoyas region in Peru, like Taussig, not rejection of consumerism (anti-globalisation) but rooted in social and historical forms of power and economy
Nugent, 1996
Parts of the world must in the end come to terms with their history and memory of oppressions and exclusions and must be ready to build new societies based on tolerance, mutual recognition, equality and human dignity
Stavenhagen, 2002