Friction: an ethnography of global connection
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Beteilige Person: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2024
Ausgabe:New paperback edition, with a new preface by the author
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Abstract:"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. Tsing focuses on the rainforests of Indonesia, where in the 1980s and 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, province, or nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforests includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, United Nations funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students—all drawn into unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out."--
Umfang:xxiv, 321 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:9780691263519