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Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Multisituated By Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Multisituated by Kaushik Sunder Rajan


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Kaushik Sunder Rajan proposes a reconceptualization of ethnography as a multisituated practice that speaks to the myriad communities of accountability and the demands of doing and teaching anthropology in the twenty-first century.

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Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis by Kaushik Sunder Rajan

In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography with regard to contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is increasingly peopled by diasporic students and researchers, all of whom are accountable to multiple communities beyond the discipline. In this light, Sunder Rajan draws on his pedagogical experience and dialogues to reconceptualize ethnography as a multisituated practice of knowledge production, ethical interlocution, and political intervention. Such a multisituated ethnography responds to contemporary anthropology's myriad commitments as it privileges attention to questions of scale, comparison, and the politics of ethnographic encounters. Foregrounding the conditions of possibility and difficulty for those doing and teaching ethnography in the twenty-first-century, Sunder Rajan gestures toward an ethos and praxis of ethnography that would open new forms of engagement and research.

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The remarkable transformations over the past thirty years in the nonetheless emblematic research process that still defines anthropologists have never been explored so comprehensively, so instructively, and so passionately by a gifted, imaginative teacher to those who become anthropologists today in a historically key department. -- George E. Marcus, coeditor of * Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition *

About Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is author of Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine and Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life and editor of Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets, all also published by Duke University Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. A Problem, a Paradox, a Politics . . . and a Praxis 1
1. Scale 29
2. Comparison 57
3. Encounter 91
4. Dialogue 136
Conclusion. Toward a Diasporic Anthropology 169
Notes 189
References 229
Index 245

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CIN147801492XG
9781478014928
147801492X
Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis by Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Used - Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2021-12-31
272
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