Multisituated: ethnography as diasporic praxis
"In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography in light of contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is increasingly peopled by diasporic students and researchers, all of whom are accountable to multiple communities beyond the discipline. In this light, Sunder Rajan draws on his pedagogical experience and dialogues to reconceptualize ethnography as a multi…
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- Full title :Multisituated : ethnography as diasporic praxis / Kaushik Sunder Rajan.
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"In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography in light of contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is increasingly peopled by diasporic students and researchers, all of whom are accountable to multiple communities beyond the discipline. In this light, Sunder Rajan draws on his pedagogical experience and dialogues to reconceptualize ethnography as a multisituated practice of knowledge production, ethical interlocution, and political intervention. Such a multisituated ethnography responds to contemporary anthropology's myriad commitments as it privileges attention to questions of scale, comparison, and the politics of ethnographic encounters. Foregrounding the conditions of possibility and difficulty for those doing and teaching ethnography in the twenty-first-century, Sunder Rajan gestures toward an ethos and praxis of ethnography that would open new forms of engagement and research"--
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- Publication Date:©2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 253 pages : : illustrations (black and white) ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781478013983, 1478013982, 9781478014928, 147801492X
- oclc:on1300425398
- LC Classification:GN307.8
- Dewey Decimal:305.80071/1
Table of Contents
Scale -- Comparison -- Encounter -- Dialogue.
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