The Paradox of Relevance : Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States.
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- 9780812204575
- 323.60973
- GN17.3.U6 -- G74 2011eb
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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