Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World

Hargrove, Melissa D.

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“…Ethnographic fieldwork was coupled with archival research comprising official policy documents, project reports and historical records mapping the hydrogeology of Lebanon. To overcome the spatial and temporal limitations of conventional ethnographies, I adopt a multi-scalar 'global ethnographic' approach (Burawoy et al, 2000) to examine how infrastructures become sites of 'encounter' and 'friction' (Tsing, 2005) wherein the operations of international development regimes and their structures of power, knowledge and capital are both manifested and contested. A multi-scalar ethnographic approach extends my analysis both spatially to capture these global macrostructural systems of knowledge, power and capital as well as the local granular, gritty and underground materiality, and temporally to examine the historically contingent production of local hydrogeologies.…”

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The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon

Khneisser

2024

Development and Change

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The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon represents an emblematic case of a high‐modernist project that has foundered on a mix of hydrogeological recalcitrance, popular opposition and compounding crises. Examining the popular contestation surrounding the Bisri Dam, this article offers a socio‐ecological material lens on post‐colonial state building and the political economy of infrastructural failure. Avoiding the analytical impasse of crisis epistemes and heuristics of failure within the long tradition of development studies on the Global South in general, and Lebanon in particular, the article poses a number of questions. How are ‘crises’ and ‘failures’ constitutive of capitalist development, and for whom are they generative? How can the ubiquitous failures of the promises of infrastructure become an opportunity for the re‐animation, re‐appropriation and re‐politicization of hydrogeologies and political imaginaries? Rather than perceiving them as aberrations, the author argues that failures are constitutive of high‐modernist infrastructural development, its liberal prescriptive techno‐political models, and the speculative logics of endless ruination. Yet, failures can also become generative, instigating new political imaginaries and historical subjectivities. The article pays special attention to competing modalities of power, focusing on the collective power of oppositional groups, coupled with the material recalcitrant power of local hydrogeology, in resisting unviable, speculative infrastructure.

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The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon

Khneisser

2024

Development and Change

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Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research: An Introduction

Kentor

2009

JWSR

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This special issue of JWSR is the offspring of an ASA Political Economy of the World System session that I organized in 2007. My thanks to Andrew Jorgenson, co-editor of JWSR, who moderated the session and proposed that I put together a special issue on this topic. In turn, I asked Timothy Moran to join me as co-editor of this issue. Tim is one of the foremost quantitative macro-comparative sociologists in the country, and was the discussant on the PEWS panel. Tim provides a summary and discussion of the contributions in the conclusion. As it turns out, only two of the panel presentations are included in this issue. The other two were submitted in response to a general call for papers. All four manuscripts were peer reviewed.

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Ethnographers of the WorldUnited? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization

Lapegna

2009

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Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World

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The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon

The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon

Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research: An Introduction

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The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon

Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research: An Introduction

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