Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection Paperback - 2004
by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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Global connections are everywhere.
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"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
"Friction is a wonderful, moving, absolutely beautiful book. One of the most important books in anthropology to appear in the past decade, it defines a field rather than simply fitting into one. This is the first sustained ethnography by a major anthropologist of Indonesia to address the post-Soeharto period. For those of us now attempting to come to terms with a strange political landscape of instability, Tsing offers both illuminating insight and useful tools. Ethnographically rigorous, brilliantly perceptive, and passionately engaged, this is the kind of writing we would all like to be able to produce."--Mary Steedly, Harvard University, author of Hanging without a Rope
"Recently, many have written about a 'clash' of civilizations, ideas, knowledges, and cultural formations. Tsing's brilliant innovation in this book is to talk in terms of 'collaboration' rather than conflict. One of the many enjoyable aspects of Friction is its continuation of the story Tsing introduced in her previous book, of the original and creative program of scholarship she is famously known for. This will be a much-discussed contribution to the anthropology of cosmopolitanism and transnational interconnection."--Celia Lowe, University of Washington
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- Title Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
- Author Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
- Binding Paperback
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- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-11-28
- ISBN 9780691120652 / 069112065X
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.68 x 6.7 x 0.84 in (22.05 x 17.02 x 2.13 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ethnology, Globalization
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004043422
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.482
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