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020			_a9781904859796
028			_a:International Book Distributors _b:Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi _c:117187 _d:29/12/2021
082			_a306.2 GRA
100			_aGraeber, David
245			_aDirect Action _b:an ethnography _c/ David Graeber
260			_aEdinburgh ; Oakland _b : AK Press, _c©2009
300			_axx, 568 pages _c24cm.
365			_b2333
505			_aIntroduction: you begin with rage, you move on to silly fantasies -- New York diary: March 2001 -- A trip to Québec City -- From Burlington to Akwesasne -- Summit of the Americas, Québec City -- Direct action, anarchism, direct democracy -- Some notes on "activist culture" -- Meetings -- Actions -- Representation -- Imagination.
520			_a"Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years -- against the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City. Written in a clear, accessible style (with a minimum of academic jargon), this study brings readers behind the scenes of a movement that has changed the terms of debate about world power relations. From informal conversations in coffee shops to large 'spokescouncil' planning meetings and tear gas-drenched street actions, Graeber paints a vivid and fascinating picture. Along the way, he addresses matters of deep interest to anthropologists: meeting structure and process, language, symbolism and representation, the specific rituals of activist culture, and much more. Starting from the assumption that, when dealing with possibilities of global transformation and emerging political forms, a disinterested, 'objective' perspective is impossible, Graeber writes as both scholar and activist. At the same time, his experiment in the application of ethnographic methods to important ongoing political events is a serious and unique contribution to the field of anthropology, as well as an inquiry into anthropologyʹs political implications"--Provided by publishe
650			_aSocial Sciences
650			_aCulture and institutions
650			_aPolitical anthropology -- America.
650			_aAnti-globalization movement -- America.
650			_aSOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
650			_aAnti-globalization movement.
650			_aPolitical anthropology.
700			_aGraeber, David
942			_cBOOK
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