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The Paradox of Relevance : Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204575
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Paradox of RelevanceDDC classification:
  • 323.60973
LOC classification:
  • GN17.3.U6 -- G74 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Relevance in Question -- 2. Templates of Relevance -- 3. Texts and Contexts -- 4. Textual Strategy and the Politics of Form -- 5. The Discourse of Solutions -- 6. Democracy in the First Person -- 7. Gendering Difference and the Impulse to Fiction -- 8. Markets for Citizenship -- Envoi: Empirical Citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: As U.S. political discourse conclusively shifted from rights to markets in the 1990s, ethnographers countered with studies of urban neighborhoods in distress, critically reworking the cultural stereotypes that popularized the market turn.
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Cover -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Relevance in Question -- 2. Templates of Relevance -- 3. Texts and Contexts -- 4. Textual Strategy and the Politics of Form -- 5. The Discourse of Solutions -- 6. Democracy in the First Person -- 7. Gendering Difference and the Impulse to Fiction -- 8. Markets for Citizenship -- Envoi: Empirical Citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

As U.S. political discourse conclusively shifted from rights to markets in the 1990s, ethnographers countered with studies of urban neighborhoods in distress, critically reworking the cultural stereotypes that popularized the market turn.

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