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11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism

This chapter explores the visceral and performative dimensions of activist networking through a comparative ethnographic analysis of anti-corporate globalization mobilizations in Prague and Barcelona.

Jeffrey S. Juris • Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization (Experimental Futures)

One result of all this attention to e-waste and supply chains is that examples of non-Western improvisation are now often adapted, appropriated, or fetishized in the West. Designers and artists express fascination with “informal” and “entrepreneurial” design practices, or with favela “bricolage” and marginalized “maker” cultures. This can lead to t... See more

Places Journal • Maintenance and Care

So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.

Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams

“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still

Developing regions also become offshore “back lots” for wealthier nations’ abject maintenance work, like breaking up rusty ships and processing e-waste. As Jackson puts it, some places are “more on the receiving end of globalization than others.”

Places Journal • Maintenance and Care

Most alarmingly, the turn to neo-liberal globalization over the last several decades has devastated the planetary environment.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

Top-down state mandated agendas, however, are unlikely to fulfill the task of environmental protection despite the commitment of the central government, in part because the state itself sends mixed messages and is constituted by different agencies and levels of government with varying if not contradictory attitudes towards the environment.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

By this time, a division had already begun to appear between developed or affluent Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan) and developing Asia (the rest). Of