Papers by Faye V Harrison
Encyclopedia of Global Studies, 2012
Urban Anthropology, 2004
... How can examining these questions through multi-focal lenses crafted ... and trade" [Mag... more ... How can examining these questions through multi-focal lenses crafted ... and trade" [Magdoff2002: 1]) has clearly exacerbated the prob-lem, taking it to its logical extreme by making recurrent ... 8). In other words, everyday life is not just the passive target of global forces from above. ...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. .
The history of what is known as feminist anthropology has developed through shifting its focus fr... more The history of what is known as feminist anthropology has developed through shifting its focus from women to gender and, in some cases transgender, interacting with other dimensions of difference. Those modes of anthropological inquiry, analysis, and theorizing that have given serious attention to lived experiences, social positions, forms of agency, and identities among females – that is, women and girls – have proliferated and become more theoretically and culturally diverse over the past three decades. This essay focuses on the epistemic, cultural, and hemispheric differences and tensions among anthropologists who study gender and related matrices of power. The special focus is on feminist anthropologists outside of North Atlantic centers of academic work and what they are bringing to conversations amongst world anthropologists. Those conversations are imagining a feminist anthropology other than the historically constituted hegemonic relations of intellectual production. Structu...
It has been suggested that leading scholars of globalization (such as Anthony Giddens and David H... more It has been suggested that leading scholars of globalization (such as Anthony Giddens and David Harvey) have tended to write from the vantage of "a privileged airspace above the world they theorize" (Burawoy 2000b:340; see also Lewellen 2002:95 on anthropologists who analyze transnational and global concerns). This observation certainly does not discount the value and usefulness of this body of theoretical discourse generated by sociologists, geographers, and other social scientists. It does, however, emphasize the importance of documenting, elucidating, and explaining the complexities and intricacies of global "forces, connections, and imaginations" (Burawoy 2000a:28, 2000b:342) from a diversity of partial perspectives, grounded in lived, embodied, and differentially situated knowledges (Haraway 1988). Such culturally diverse knowledges and the socially negotiated experiences on which they are based are among the concerns of ethnographic inquiry and the theories and analytical perspectives that inform and compose this approach. As much more than a genre for writing and textualizing culture (Behar and Gordon 1995; Clifford and Marcus 1986), ethnography has long inspired sociocultural anthropologists and, increasingly, researchers in other fields (for example, Brown and Dobrin 2004).
Souls, 2002
uman rights-"the reasonable demands for personal security and basic well-being that all individua... more uman rights-"the reasonable demands for personal security and basic well-being that all individuals can make on the rest of humanity by virtue of their being members of the species Homo sapiens"-are in increased jeopardy in this era of globalization. Small, poor countries increasingly are dominated by imposed economic controls that make a mockery of their rights to self-determination. For about two decades, this neoliberal regime-in which developed nations aid poorer nations on the condition that they restructure their economies and political systems to accommodate maximum wealth accumulation by multinational corporations-has arrived packaged as so-called free trade. This phenomenon is more than an idea or ideology. It is a cultural system, "a paradigm for understanding and organizing the world and for informing our practices within it." It is "an approach to the world which includes in its purview not only economics but also politics, not only the public but also the private, not only what kinds of institutions we should have but also what kinds of subjects we should be." 1 The reasons for this assault on human rights-political and socioeconomic-are complex. In many parts of the world, however, it can be attributed, at least in part, to the relative immunity with which transnational corporations and agencies dictate social, political and economic issues within nation-states, especially smaller nations. These nations' ability to protect rights to education, health care, and humane work standards has been drastically compromised by internationally mandated policies and programs that give higher priority to corporate rights and the rights of transnational capital than to the basic needs and dignity of ordinary human beings. Although the social contract that more democratic states once had with their citizens has virtually disappeared in many places, the repressive role of state power clearly has not. In many cases, Western, particularly U.S., foreign aid packages include generous provisions for police and military upgrading. Thanks to this free market in arms, intergroup tensions within smaller nations now are more apt to escalate into militarized conflicts.
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 2013
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 1988
The Journal of African American History, 2013
Critique of Anthropology, 1993
Critique of Anthropology, 1992
Those of us on the left in anthropology anticipate with serious misgivings and vigilance the triu... more Those of us on the left in anthropology anticipate with serious misgivings and vigilance the triumphalism and xenophobia that will attend on the quincentennial anniversary of Columbus' 'discovery' of the Americas, even as the economies, societies and cultures driven by the forces of economic expansion since the late fifteenth century fall deeper into crisis and, in some cases, collapse. This foreseeable outcome is perhaps a proper coda for the oppressive processes that the Columbian 'celebration' memorializes. In the waning years of the century, it is an appropriate time to reflect on what W.E.B. Du Bois called 'the problem of the twentieth century' -racism, with its discourses, ideologies, and practices -for it is this 'problem' which, along with capital accumulation, has been the demiurge of the systems of exploitation and oppression in the 'New World' that have emerged and developed from the 'Age of Discovery' to the present. It is precisely such a recognition that has led anthropologists to return recently to the issues of race, racism, multicultural politics, and the ideological processes of canon formation in anthropology; such a concern, for instance, has been evinced in the program themes of the 1991 and 1992
URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY., 2004
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1995
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