In our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, violence and ecocide, when radical concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do researchers and students of ethnographic work decide what concepts to work with or renew?
Gillian Hart is a key thinker in radical political economy, geography, development studies, agrarian studies and Gramscian critique of postcolonial capitalism. In Ethnographies of Power each contributor engages her work and applies it to their own field of study.
A major contribution of this collection is the merging of theory with praxis, resulting in invaluable research tools for postgraduate students. These include applying gendered labour practices among workers in South Africa, reading racial capitalism through agrarian debates, using relational comparison in an ethnography of schooling across Durban, reworking multiple socio-spatial trajectories in Guatemalas Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africas second economy, revisiting development processes and Development discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramscis conjunctures geographically, finding divergent articulations in Cape Town land occupations, and exploring nationalism as central to revaluing recyclables at a Soweto landfill. Together, the chapters show how important the ongoing reworking of radical concepts is to ethnographic critiques of power.
Ethnographies of Power offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for social and environmental change towards a collective future.
Working with key concepts developed by Gillian Hart, this book argues for a critical ethnographic approach to advance social justice movements for a radically different world. It offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for social and environmental change
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