[spectre] jeffrey juris: networking futures

[Geert Lovink]

> From: Jeffrey Juris <Jeffrey.Juris at asu.edu>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> Just wanted to let folks know that my new book is finally out,  
> Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization  
> (Duke University Press). Please spread the word!
>
> The book provides an ethnographic account of the cultural practice  
> and politics of transnational networking among anti-corporate  
> globalization activists based in Barcelona with a particular focus  
> on the links between digital technologies, new forms of  
> organization, and emerging political imaginaries. It also explores  
> network organizing, performative protest, and violence during mass  
> direct actions.
>
> For more information and/or to order the book, go to:  
> www.networkingfutures.com.
>
> The book can also be ordered from www.dukeupress.edu or  
> www.amazon.com.
>
> Blurb from the Publisher:
>
> Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global  
> Action (PGA)— including the mobilization against the November 1999  
> World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate  
> globalization activists have staged direct action protests against  
> multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona,  
> Genoa, and Cancun.Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan  
> activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and  
> the broader World Social Forum process.
>
> In 2001 and 2002, the anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris participated  
> in the Barcelona-based Movement for Global Resistance, one of the  
> most influential anti–corporate globalization networks in Europe.  
> Juris took part in hundreds of meetings, gatherings, protests, and  
> online discussions. Those experiences form the basis of Networking  
> Futures, an innovative ethnography of transnational activist  
> networking within the movements against corporate globalization. In  
> an account full of activist voices and on-the-ground detail, he  
> explains how activists are not only responding to growing poverty,  
> inequality, and environmental devastation but also building social  
> laboratories for the production of alternative values, discourses,  
> and practices.
>
> Praise for the Book:
>
> “Networking Futures is one of the very first books to map in detail  
> the multiple networks that are challenging corporate globalization.  
> Taking as a point of departure an exemplary case—the Catalan anti– 
> globalization movements of the past decade—Jeffrey S. Juris moves  
> on to chronicle the collective struggles to construct not only an  
> alternative vision of possible worlds but the means to bring them  
> about. Networking Futures is a compelling portrait of the spirit of  
> innovation that lies behind an array of progressive mobilizations,  
> from anarchist movements and street protests to the World Social  
> Forum. Based on a well-developed notion of collaborative  
> ethnography, it is also a wonderful example of engaged scholarship:  
> a much-needed alternative to academic work as usual.”
>
> -Arturo Escobar, author of Territories of Difference: Place,  
> Movements, Life, Redes
>
> “Jeffrey S. Juris gives us an illuminating model for how to study  
> networks from below using the tools of ethnography. And in the  
> process he reveals the extraordinary power (as well as the  
> challenges) of network organizing for social movements today.”
>
> -Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude
>
> “Networking Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic  
> account of the origins and activities of the anti–corporate  
> globalization movement. Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that  
> of an activist who happens to be doing first-rate anthropology as  
> vice versa, and there is much for anthropologists to reflect on in  
> the way that this work is set up and narrated through these dual  
> identities.”
>
> -George E. Marcus, co-author of Designs for an Anthropology of the  
> Contemporary
>
> About the Author:
>
> Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the  
> Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State  
> University. He is a co-author of Global Democracy and the World  
> Social Forums and has published numerous articles in both scholarly  
> journals and activist research forums. He also serves on the  
> Editorial Board of Resistance Studies Magazine and has taken part  
> in numerous direct action-oriented groups and networks, including  
> the Movement for Global Resistance in Barcelona. His new fieldwork  
> explores the relationship between grassroots media activism and  
> autonomy in Mexico City.
>
> Jeffrey S. Juris
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
>
> New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
>
> Arizona State University
>
> jeffrey.juris at asu.edu
>
> www.networkingfutures.com