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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 Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africa's 'second economy', revisiting 'development' processes and 'Development' discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramsci's '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.

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Author:   Sharad Chari ,  Mark Hunter ,  Melanie Samson ,  Sharad Chari
Publisher:   Wits University Press
Imprint:   Wits University Press
ISBN:  

9781776146666

ISBN 10:   1776146662
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart —Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter and Melanie Samson Chapter 1 The Politics of ‘Gendered Labour’: Gillian Hart’s Relational ‘Conjunctures’ —Bridget Kenny Chapter 2 Micro-foundations for ‘Racial Capitalism’: ‘Interlocking Transactions’ —Sharad Chari Chapter 3 ‘Relational Comparison’ and Geography’s Question of Method —Mark Hunter Chapter 4 ‘Multiple Trajectories of Globalisation’ —Jennifer Devine Chapter 5 A Conversation with Gillian Hart about Mbeki’s ‘Second Economy’ —Ahmed Veriava Chapter 6 ‘D/developments’ after the War on Terror —Jennifer Greenburg Chapter 7 ‘Articulation’, ‘Translation’, ‘Populism’: Gillian Hart’s Engagements with Gramsci —Michael Ekers, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus Chapter 8 Make ‘Articulation’ Gramscian Again —Zachary Levenson Chapter 9 What is ‘Nationalism’? Thinking Alongside Hart at a South African Landfill —Melanie Samson Contributors Index

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Sharad Chari is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley and he is affiliated to the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) and its project on Oceanic Humanities in the Global South. Mark Hunter is an associate professor in the Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto and Honorary Research Fellow of Built Environment and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Melanie Samson is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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