Civil Becomings - Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean

About the author

RaÚl Acosta is project manager at the Research Group on Urban Ethics, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitÄt MÜnchen. He is author of NGO and Social Movement Networking in the World Social Forum: An Anthropological Approach and coeditor of Making Sense of the Global: Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes.

Summary

An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organisations. Raul Acosta examines the manner in which progressive nongovernmental organisations and activists act in a more intermingled and processual way than scholars have previously acknowledged.

Product details

• Authors: Raul Acosta, Raúl Acosta
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780817320676
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2067-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Illustrations: 8 black & white figures
• Series: NGOgraphies; Ngographies: Ethnographic Refl
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology