Contested Public Spheres: Female Activism and Identity Politics in Malaysia - Couverture souple

Spiegel, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3531174533 ISBN 13 : 9783531174532

Editeur : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010

Synopsis

1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists 1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists: Experiencing and doing globalisation Going through the broad spectrum of globalisation research and literature, one might be astonished at how much it assumes the force of global change, and how little of this literature demonstrates this force in an empirically grounded way. This study, being based on six months of empirical research in Malaysia in 2004, sets out to counter this lack of thick description of globalisation processes. It takes up the challenge of researching the "global everyday" (Appadurai 2000, 18) of civil society actors in Malaysia and focuses on how social activists belonging to different branches of the women's movement selectively app- priate, transform and even create global meanings and materialise them in local practices. The methodological endeavour of combining globalisation research and ethnography has been taken up by a diversity of authors. Burawoy and his research team have developed a complex methodological framework by focusing on the experiential dimensions of globalisation. They want to produce a "grounded globalisation" or "perspectives on globalisations from below" (Burawoy 2000b, 338, 341). This perspective is very fruitful, as the notion of experiencing globalisation as "forces, connections, and imaginations" (Burawoy et al. eds. 2000) relocates the global in the local and ties both together in mutual constitution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Spiegel is currently employed at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is coordinating desiguALdades.net, the Research Network on Inderdependent Inequalities in Latin America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3531174533
• ISBN 13: 9783531174532
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
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