Friction
An Ethnography of Global Connection
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ISBN-13:
9780691120652
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.11.2004
Seiten:
344
Autor:
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Gewicht:
476 g
Format:
220x170x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
"Friction is not only an engrossing display of ethnographic reports on the destruction of Kalimantan forests and local attempts to resist it. The book also proposes a highly original perspective of the global thrust of capital. Anna Tsing is at best when she describes the way capital produces an expanding 'frontier culture': a dense and murky story of fragments and fluidity, of hurdles and clashes that disrupt the neo-liberal theater of clarity. For an Indonesian reader, her work is a gift; it hints at the feasibility of hope--or at least the mingling of despair and hope. For a thinking activist, it suggests a fresh theory of action. Introducing the notion of 'engaged universals, ' it brings home the role of 'utopian critiques.'"--Goenawan Mohamad, author of Conversations with Difference
Preface ix Introduction 1 PART I: Prosperity "Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up" 21 Chapter 1: Frontiers of Capitalism 27 "They communicate only in sign language" 51 Chapter 2: The Economy of Appearances 55 PART II: Knowledge "Let a new Asia and a new Africa be born" 81 Chapter 3: Natural Universals and the Global Scale 88 "Dark rays" 113 Chapter 4: Nature Loving 121 "This earth, this island Borneo" 155 Chapter 5: A History of Weediness 171 PART III: Freedom "A hair in the flour" 205 Chapter 6: Movements 213 "Facilities and incentives" 239 Chapter 7: The Forest of Collaborations 245 Coda 269 Notes 273 References 297 Index 313
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