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Author Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-

Title The paradox of relevance : ethnography and citizenship in the United States / Carol J. Greenhouse
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
Series EBL-Schweitzer
Contents Relevance in question -- Templates of relevance -- Texts and contexts -- Textual strategy and the politics of form -- The discourse of solutions -- Democracy in the first person -- Gendering difference and the impulse to fiction -- Markets for citizenship
Summary 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
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812204575
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-306) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Citizenship -- United States -- Philosophy
Social structure -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Ethnology -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Anthropology -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Citizenship -- Philosophy
Ethnology -- Political aspects
Social structure -- Political aspects
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812204575
0812204573