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For more on these topics and debates, consult these sources:

Witnessing/Rethinking

  • Butler, Judith. 2004. Precarious life: The powers of mourning and violence. London:Verso.
  • Das, Veena. “Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain” and “Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community.” In Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, pp. 38-58, 205-221.
  • --------------. 1997. "The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity," in Das, ed., Das, ed. Violence and Subjectivity. California.
  • Farmer, Paul. “Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights.” The Tanner Lecture on Human Values delivered at the University of Utah, May 2005.
  • Sontag, Susan. Chs. 2-3, Chs 8-9, Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003.
  • Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Religion, Politics, Theology: A Conversation with Achille Mbembe.” In Boundary 2, 2007, 34(2): 149-170.

Social Movements

  • Albro, Robert. 2005. "The Water is Ours, Carajo! Deep Citizenship in Bolivia's Water War," in Nash, ed. Social Movements: a Reader. Blackwell. (bookstore, book reserve).
  • Ashwin Desai (2002) We Are The Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
  • Bello, W. Deglobalization: Ideas for a New Economy. Zed books, 2002
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and “Neo-liberalism, the Utopia (Becoming Reality) of Unlimited Exploitation.” In Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market. New York: The New Press, 1998, pp. 1-10, 94-105.
  • Brecher, et all. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity. South end press, 2000.
  • Chesters, G., and I. Welsh. 2004. Rebel Colours: “Framing” in Global Social Movements. The Sociological Review  52(3)314-335.
  • J. K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
  • Fisher and Ponniah, eds. Another World is Possible. Zed books, 2003 [intro article on WSF, nice summaries of main issues and debates]
  • Gibler, John. 2006. Scenes from the Oaxaca Rebellion. ZNet Commentaries , 4 August 2006.
  • Giddens, Anthony. 1998. The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy. London, Polity Press. [Edelman and Haug. say G. does not challenge macroecon. premises of neolib]
  • Giroux, H.A. 2004. “The Politics of Hope in Dangerous Times.” In The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy . Pp. 125-144. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
  • Michael Hardt and Antonion Negri "Alternatives within Empire" in Empire, pp. 44-66 5
  • Hardt, M., and A. Negri. 2004. Democracy of the Multitude. In Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Pp. 328-358. New York: The Penguin Press.
  • Jackson, Jean E., and Kay B. Warren. 2005. Indigenous Movements in Latin America, 1992-2004: Controversies, Ironies, New Directions. Annual Review of Anthropology  34:549-573.
  • Kaplan, R.D. 1997. Was Democracy Just a Moment? The Atlantic Monthly  December: 55-80.
  • Klien, N. 2002. Windows of Descent. In Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate. Pp. 3-40. New York: Picador.
  • ---------------. 2002. Windows to Democracy. In Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate. Pp. 193-246. New York: Picador.
  • Stiglitz, Joseph. 2002. Globalization and its Discontents. [Sr. VP at World Bank, beg. 1997-; calls for "globaliz. with a more human face" at the end]
  • Subcomandante Marcos "The Fourth World War Has Begun" Nepantla 2 (3) (first published in 1997)
  • Went, Robert. 2003. Ch. 5 Globalization Under Fire. [leftist econ. view]
  • Wignaraja, P., ed., New Social Movements in the South, Zed Books, 1993.
  • World Social Forum : challenging empires / edited by Jai Sen ... [et al.] New Delhi : Viveka Foundation, 2004  

Engaged Anthropology

  • Appadurai, Arjun. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Goodale, Mark. 2006. Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights. Current Anthropology 47(3):485-511.
  • Fischer, Michael M. J. “Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems.”  Cultural Anthropology, 2007, 22(1):1-65.
  • David Graeber "The Globalization Movement" in Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerug (eds) The Anthropology of Development and Globalization
  • ----------------. Direct Action.
  • Merry, Sally Engle. 2006. Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle. American Anthropologist 108(1):38-51.
  • Nash, ed. Social Movements: An anthro reader
  • Rabinow, Paul. Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp.101-128.
  • Speed, Shannon. 2006. At the Crossroads of Human Rights and Anthropology: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research. American Anthropologist  108(1):66-76.

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