Edgy Mama - 09 August 2009 01:27 PM
tatuaje - 09 August 2009 12:27 PM
Edgy Mama - 09 August 2009 11:15 AM
He grew up around the corner from my Dad and was a childhood friend of my uncle’s. I think he wrote his poem “Where are the Buckhead Boys?” about their hood.
He lives on Fripp where I used to spend my summers as a boy and spent time as a teacher on Dafuskie where I’ve also spent a lot of time.
His descriptions of the lowcountry always get to me.
He’ll be in town for his new book soon.
Asheville, NC
Tuesday, September 8 - Time tba
Captain’s Bookshelf
31 Page Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
Signing only
Can’t wait!
So, didn’t make it to the Conroy book signing. Did you EM?
His new book, South of Broad, is perfect shite.
The dialogue, especially in part 1, was completely weird and unbelievable. The characters were just a wee bit cartoonish. And most of the story takes place in the ‘90’s ?
Seems to me like Conroy had a contractual obligation to fill and dusted off an idea that had been shelved (perhaps rightly so) years ago.
However, I just cracked Direct Action: An Ethnography by David Graeber.
If the next 500 pages are as good as the preface I won’t be able to put it down.
In the best tradition of participant-observation, anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. Starting from the assumption that, when dealing with possibilities of global transformation and emerging political forms, a disinterested, “objective” perspective is impossible, he writes as both scholar and activist. At the same time, his experiment in the application of ethnographic methods to important ongoing political events is a serious and unique contribution to the field of anthropology, as well as an inquiry into anthropology’s political implications.
The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the dramatic protest against the Summit of the Americas in Québec City in 2001. Written in a clear, accessible style (with a minimum of academic jargon), this study brings readers behind the scenes of a movement that has changed the terms of debate about world power relations. From informal conversations in coffee shops to large “spokescouncil” planning meetings and teargas-drenched street actions, Graeber paints a vivid and fascinating picture. Along the way, he addresses matters of deep interest to anthropologists: meeting structure and process, language, symbolism, representation, the specific rituals of activist culture, and much more.
David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist who teaches at the University of London. Active in numerous direct-action political organizations, he is the author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology; Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value; and Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire.
