We are pleased to announce the publication of our book Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political (Duke University Press). In this book, politically engaged ethnographers examine the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, challenging dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism.
“Insurgent Encounters is an exciting and timely collection. It treats topics of great interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, especially those concerned with ethnography, social movements, and activist scholarship. I am convinced that the engagement of activist ethnography with transnational social movements has the power to transform the disciplines, and ethnography, in interesting ways.”—Michael Hardt, coauthor of the books Commonwealth, Multitude, and Empire
“This important collection represents the best work by anthropologists who are reshaping ethnography ‘of’ and ‘for’ social movements. No other book addresses the present-day intersection and increasingly mutual identification of anthropological research and social-movement activism as thoroughly or comprehensively as this does. What’s more, one gets the sense that the essays derive from a working community of activist-scholars living up to the vision of ‘network’ that the volume itself exemplifies. For me, the collection as an artifact and enactment of the kinds of collaboration that it discusses is one of its most fascinating features.”—George E. Marcus, coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke University Press, please visit http://www.dukeupress.edu/
