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Authors Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Blackw ellPublishing LtdOxfo rd, UKSOCOSo cio lo g y Co m pass17 51-9020© 2007 The Autho rJo urnalCo m pilatio n © 2007 Blackw ellPublishing Ltd05310.1111/j.17 51-9020.2007 .00053.xNo vem ber200700139???155???Orig inalArticlesThe Ethnos in the PolisThe Ethnos in the Polis The Ethnos in the Polis: Political Ethnography as a Mode of Inquiry Gianpaolo Baiocchi*1 and Brian T. Connor2 1 Brown University 2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Abstract In the social sciences, there is renewed attention to political ethnography, a research method that is based on close-up and real-time observation of actors involved in political processes, at times even extending the definition of these processes to move beyond categories of state, civil society, and social movements. This article examines the emergence of political ethnography from a number of disciplinary locations, such as political science, the cultural turn in sociology, and anthropology, and shows the value of this new approach for understanding how politics work in everyday life. Introduction Political ethnographies are a relative novelty for the social sciences. They are new in that there is today a resurgence of ethnographic studies that deal with the formal province of political sociology or political science: states, nations, social movements, political culture, and revolutions. In the last 15 years, these have included studies like Lancaster’s (1988) ethnography of Managua neighborhoods during the revolution; Brown’s (1997) study of AIDS activism in Vancouver; Auyero’s (2001) study of Peronist networks in Argentina; Lichterman’s (1996) ethnography of forms of activist com- mitment; Eliasoph’s (1998) study of political apathy; Wood’s study of faith-based community networks (2002); and Glaeser’s (2000) study of police officials in postreunification Germany, among many others. It has also included special issues of journals like the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography special issue on the ‘Far Right’, and two issues of Qualitative Sociology dedicated to political ethnography. As an indicator of the novelty of these studies, the introduction to the special issue of Qualitative Sociology1 by Auyero (2006, 257) states that ‘politics and its main protagonists (state official, politicians, and activists) remain un(der)studied by ethnography’s mainstream’. A set of reflections in States and Societies, the political sociology newsletter, has practitioners of political ethnography reflecting on the challenges of ‘risking inconvenience’ by undertaking ethnography and justifying and publishing such work in a subfield whose mandate is to
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in the Polis © 2008 The Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ‘study the “big” world of power and institutions, not the “small world” of everyday interaction between ordinary people’ (Lichterman 2005a, 1–2). Yet such ethnographies have been around for a long time, even if not always prominently recognized as central to sociology and allied disciplines. In anthropology, concerns with forms of authority and power date to the founding of the discipline, and are the analytical focus of many studies in the post–World War II period. In addition to the Manchester school ethnographies, like Epstein’s Politics in an Urban African Community (1958), postwar investigations of clientelism and ‘pathological’ social formations, like Banfield’s Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958) or Lewis’s Five Families (1959), are essentially political ethnographies. In sociology, under the guise of community studies, since the 1930s scholars have engaged in direct observation of neighborhood activists, political networks, and the day-to-day life of politics. Many of the most famous such studies, such as Robert and Helen Lynd’s Middletown studies (1929, 1937), Hunter’s study of Atlanta (1953), or Vidich and Bensman’s study of Candor, New York (1956), had strong, if not explicit ethnographic components. The Lynds, for example, emulated the ‘approach of the cultural anthropologist’ (1929, 3) in describing the modes of behavior that prevailed in Muncie, Indiana. It is clear that ethnography, ‘close-up, on-the-ground observation of people and institutions in real time’ where the investigator detects ‘how and why agents act think and feel’ (Wacquant 2003, 5, cited in Auyero 2006) can offer special insights for the study of politics. If we think of the study of politics broadly as the study of societal power (its distribution, reproduction, and transformation) and the structures, institutions, move- ments, and collective identities that both maintain and challenge it, the ethnographic gaze can mean any one of the following: 1 Studying politics, defined as the events, institutions, or actors that are normally considered ‘political’ (e.g., social movements, or states), but in an ethnographic way: at a smaller scale and as they happen. We call this version ethnographies of political actors and institutions. 2 Studying routine encounters between people and those institutions and actors, encounters normally invisible in nonethnographic ways (e.g., the encounter between organized social movements and nonparticipants; or the encounters with state bureaucracies or welfare agencies). We refer to this version below as encounters with formal politics. 3 Studying other kinds of events, institutions, or actors altogether, that while invisible from nonethnographic vantage points, are of consequence to politics in some way (e.g., apathy, or nonparticipation in social movements). Below, we call this the lived experience of the political. Many political ethnographies do not exclusively fall into one or the other category; instead, we use these categories as a heuristic device. The first category might more readily come to mind as constituting political ethnography, but we make the argument that the second and third
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Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd The Ethnos in the Polis 141 versions are also important. The first version includes studies of social movements, revolutions, civil society organizations, although ‘under the microscope’, detailing the experiences and processes taking place in those institutions or among the actors in question (Auyero 2006). For example, Lichterman’s (2005b) account of various protestant volunteering and advocacy projects shows that group customs that invite reflective and critical discussion contributed to the formation of successful external ‘bridges’ or ties. The second and third versions might be less readily considered political ethnography, but are just as important in the insights they provide about politics. The second version, encounters with formal politics, moves away from the inner workings of recognizable actors and institutions in politics, like states and social movements, and toward their boundaries. These ethnographies principally include studies of encounters with states or state bureaucracies as well as the study of the blurry boundaries between those formal institutions and informal politics, such as the ‘grey zones’ of clandestine political activity (Auyero 2007) or participants at the edge of social movements (Wolford 2005). The third version, the lived experience of the political, takes the broadest definition of what constitutes the political. Objects of study include studies of apathy, instead of engagement, or of conversations at sites ordinarily thought to be nonpolitical. But in these cases, the ethnographer then makes the analytical link to political culture, or nation, or another relevant political process. In this latter definition, it is not that political actors as understood by the discipline may have fuzzy boundaries examined up close, but that the everyday in itself becomes a politically relevant site, whether or not recognizable ‘political actors’ are present. Navaro-Yashin (2002), provides a an example of this style of political ethnography, where fashion shows and sporting events, among other mundane places, become sites where the political can emerge through discourse, actions, or both. Political ethnographers often make the claim that the ethnographic gaze calls into question many of the assumptions of traditional political studies, and that this can call for a significant retheorization. The advantages of political ethnography, as alluded to in this introduction, are multiple. The first advantage is that ethnographic studies of politics can provide an understanding of how state, national, or global actions play themselves out on local stages (Burawoy 2000; Scott 1986). Another advantage is that practices in the political realm can be examined. Questions such as how do people (not) get involved in politics can be answered by studying how individuals negotiate their actions in regards to political issues in their everyday lives (Auyero 2003; Eliasoph 1998). Finally, both of these advantages get back to the idea of the lived experiences of the political. Where previous studies of politics used broad strokes to paint a picture of political life, political ethnography allows the researcher to bring up the mundane details that can affect politics, providing a ‘thick description’ where one was missing. In this sense, ‘political ethnography provides privileged access to its processes, causes, and effects’ of broader political processes (Tilly 2006, 410).
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in the Polis © 2008 The Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd In this essay, we review the state of political ethnography, briefly considering its origins before considering contributions along the three lines above. Our discussion is interdisciplinary, but in the final section of the essay, we also consider some disciplinary conventions in sociology, political science, and anthropology, and how these shape how authors have justified the status of their works within these disciplines. We will be thus closely attentive to whether, and how, political ethnographers speak back to central questions in the discipline, scrutinizing strategies of justification, the rhetorical moves by which authors assert the value of their findings as relevant to the discipline (Law 2004). The goal of this abbreviated essay is to convey some of the excitement of this interdisciplinary mode of inquiry and discussion, and to introduce some exemplars to an audience of ethnographers and others. What we do not do is to provide a thorough picture of all, or even most, political ethnographies. The limited size of this review prevents us from discussing many more interesting works, or discussing the ones we address in more detail. We also limited our discussion to the English-language literature, full aware of exciting studies in other languages.2 The origins of political ethnography Like in sociology, anthropology counts with an earlier tradition of political ethnographies, many of them in the manner of the Manchester school, and many under the rubric of political anthropology (Vincent 1990; Werbner 1984). Manchester school scholars, under the influence of Max Gluckman, developed a distinctive structuralist style of anthropology with their investigations of British Central Africa. They concerned themselves with forms of authority in traditional societies as well as with changing practices and conflicts that result from colonial pressures, and were often structural functionalist in theoretical orientation. For example, Epstein’s (1958) study of a mine township in the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia traces emergent forms of urban organization among Africans, like unions or welfare organizations, that transcend but do not fully displace tribal allegiances as a means of integration. Another classic political ethnography is Banfield’s (1958) postwar study of Italian peasants, finding the moral order that guided a social formation mired in patronage and clientelism. As mentioned, the so-called community studies in sociology often deployed ethnographic methods and often addressed local politics and local political culture, albeit sometimes in an oblique manner. So while Suttles (1968) is mostly concerned with the ‘social order of the slum’ in South Chicago, the moral universe that residents create for themselves, he does describe institutional arrangements and communication patterns that reproduce this order, concerns that are shared by contemporary Foucauldian scholars. Later community studies, like Kornblum’s (1974) and Bailey’s (1974), more explicitly address political questions. Kornblum is concerned
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in the Polis © 2008 The Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd topics and observed how talk naturally occurred, coding it for frames. While neither study was ethnographic, they were both very much concerned with individual acts of meaning-making, which will become important for subsequent ethnographies. Political ethnography (1): Political actors A first strand of political ethnographies is made up by studies of collective actors like social movements, neighborhood associations, and other expressions of civil society. Political ethnographers have asked questions about the meaning of such association – at times dialoguing with Gramsci and other theories of culture and power, and at times dialoguing with theories of civic association. These scholars have argued that ethnography allows us to answer a number of questions simply not accessible by other means (Lichterman 1996). As all of these ethnographies attest, projects about ‘ways of doing politics’, practices, and performances require a certain amount of observation of these as they happen, and where they happen. Studies of language and culture have to pay attention to the internal coherence of cultural codes but also to the unspoken, performative, and structuring elements of these codes, the ‘extralinguistic’ factors, as the implicit rules of who can and cannot speak, who determines the rules of ‘proper’ speech, and access to proper ways of speaking, and strategies of presentation of the (political) self (Eliasoph 1998). In recent years, US-based studies have joined a resurgence in interest in ethnographies of politics and social movements in the Global South, especially among the Latin American urban poor, also largely inspired by concepts of civil society (Arias 2006; Auyero 2001; Baiocchi 2005; Gay 1994; Mische 2006). One strand of questions has been about everyday meanings and common sense in the crafting of political identities. Why, ethnographers have asked, do certain political group identities make more sense than others? In pointed contrast to approaches that focus on ‘objective’ opportunity structures or the assumed rationality of collective actors as a way to explain collective action, political ethnographers often focus on everyday meanings instead. For example, Rubin’s (1997) study of the emergence of Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI) as a major political party in Juchitán, Mexico, gives a rich historical account of how the leftist party was able to make a stronghold in the poor region. In using grassroots tactics centered around Zapotec ethnicity, COCEI was able to organize support against the traditional, corporatist governing practices of the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI). Rubin uses interviews and archival research to show what issues COCEI focused on to gain support, and also why residents supported or did not support the party’s actions. Hansen (1999) studies the emergence of Hindu Nationalism in India through archival records and fieldwork, to show how Hindu nationalist parties like the Bharatiya Jonata Party (BJP) were able to gain power in the Indian
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Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd The Ethnos in the Polis 147 A good example is Ong’s (2003) study. Ong’s theoretical choice to examine how Foucault’s technologies of governance work in Cambodian immigrants’ experience of citizenship in the USA is less a test of theory and more of a plotting of the ‘concrete assemblages produced by converging rationalities ...’ (p. 10). The first portion of the book deals with the historical situation in which thousands of Cambodians fled their country and ended up in the USA. Combining historical documents with refugee narratives, Ong shows the direct processes and causes of Pol Pot’s regime that lead to people fleeing Cambodia. The rest of the book examines the practices Cambodian refugees did and were exposed to and the technologies of government that helped them negotiate the changes resulting from moving to a postindustrial state. One particular practice centered around the efforts to become self-reliant. The idea of self-reliance was stressed by most of the institutions the refugees dealt with. Social services like welfare helped with refugees transitioning from peasants to ‘low-wage workers’ (p. 277). Health services taught refugees about regulating the body, especially through birth control, These and other institutions all preached self-reliance as a necessary tool for survival in America. Ong discusses the difficulty and strategies many refugees used in their transition from top-down, repressive society in Cambodia to the self-regulatory, disciplinary lifestyle that various institutions kept insisting was how one should live in the USA. The self-constitution of these refugees in America was governed through their encounters with state bureaucracies, religion, and work, all aiming to create productive members of society. Ong’s work ethnographically details how Cambodian refugees became citizens; not just in the legal sense of citizenship, but also in the moral and ethical sense of how Cambodians could become ‘worthy’ citizens. Another exemplar is the study by Corbridge et al. (2005). Resulting from 3 years of research in Eastern India, the book combines results of household surveys, extensive taped interviews, but relies heavily on field observations in five sites in three states. Like some of the contemporary anthropological interventions discussed here, the book is engaged with Foucault, Scott, and a range of postcolonial theories. Reversing Scott’s (and Foucault’s) gaze on how states see populations, the study is concerned with how the view from below, or ‘the myriad ways that the state comes into view’ (2005, 7). The central arguments of the book are developed in its sections on its fieldwork, carried out in sites where ‘pro-poor governance’ schemes were carried out. The story is told in each community from three vantage points: from the point of view of encounters with development and ‘empowerment’ schemes; from the point of view of career paths of civil servants; and finally, from the point of view of poor-state encounters that are mediated by local political societies. Participation in pro-poor participatory schemes is slight, and largely understood as an ineffective vehicle. Some of the most interesting insights from the research have to do with the way that state-poor encounters are embedded in local political contexts. In one field
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in the Polis © 2008 The Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd site in West Bengal, for example, an area dominated by the Communist Party (CPI-M), and where the poor are dependent on party elites, participation in local village councils did not directly impact major decisions, but the polit- ically charged atmosphere meant that acts of impropriety or embezzlement came to light and occasioned political responses by the dominant party. Political ethnography (3): The lived experience of the political A third strand of political ethnography focuses on the everyday and its relationship to politics. Everyday life in relation to politics has no singular meaning for these authors, but ethnographies have often highlighted how some of the most seemingly mundane aspects of life become rooted in politics of the state or nation (in particular the nation). Here, state bureaucracies, social movements, or nongovernmental organizations are not necessarily found. Sporting events (Navaro-Yashin 2002), ritual (Taussig 1997), religious groups for women (Mahmood 2005), and even life in a factory and its housing (Pun 2005) all provide sites away from the state and traditional social movements/civil society to show how deeply the politics of a nation imbues its subjects with certain discourses and practices. Donham (1999) uses history and ethnography to study how the people of Maale dealt with the transitions of rule in Ethiopia, from anti-modern religious missions to communist attempts at reform and modernization. Transitioning between Maale and Addis Ababa, Donham provides a rich understanding of how state politics and policies emanating from the capitol affect the everyday lives of people in a remote area of Ethiopia. In Turkey, Navaro-Yashin argued that secular and Islamic cultural and political forces were found in some of the most mundane aspects of life in Turkey. Department stores, fashion shows, and markets all became venues where secularist and Islamic values could be marketed and made part of the ‘normal’ politics and values of Turkey. Other spaces or more sacred national symbols also became places for Turks to claim a secularist or Islamic identity. For example, after the 1994 elections, when the secularist regime was replaced by an Islamic one, there was an increase in the number of statues being built for Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern (secular) Turkey. The increase, as Navaro-Yashin claims, comes from the fact that many secularists were worried about what would happen to Turkey with a religious political party in power, and wanted to ‘reproduce Turkey’s secularist history into the future’ (2002, 89). By claiming Ataturk as a symbol of secular Turkey, secularists attempted to portray the history of the nation as a secular one, and cast the new Islamic regime as a possible threat to the history of the nation. Wedeen’s (1999) study in Syria practiced a politics ‘as if’ under Asad’s regime. Combining both archival research and ethnography, Wedeen examines discourses, spectacles, and individuals’ interpretations of them to
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Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd The Ethnos in the Polis 149 understand how a repressive, totalitarian regime is able to remain in power with relatively little threats to power. Her theory rejects hegemony-based and discipline-based theories on action, claiming that people in Syria neither fully believe in what they do or say at political rallies or in front of government officials, nor do they whole heartedly provide a counter- hegemonic politics. This ‘as if’ can be seen in the spectators at public events meant to show the greatness of Asad and Syria. Even though Wedeen learned that many of the participants secretly criticized the regime, they still participated in the events as if they were staunch supporters of Asad. In this case, subjects are neither coerced nor disciplined to a real positive belief in the regime. At the same time, no strong counterhegemonic movement was present threatening to topple the regime. Instead, individuals negotiated a space of relative domination and freedom by practicing a politics of ‘as if’ without fully accepting nor rejecting Asad’s regime. Contexts of justification Political ethnographies are a largely interdisciplinary affair. Even a cursory look at citations in the ethnographies in this review will attest to a lively debate across and against disciplinary and area-study boundaries. But political ethnographers often write from within disciplines that vary in their evaluations of what constitutes an acceptable contribution to knowledge or science. According to the standards of positive science, which exert influence in political science and sociology, ethnographies are at a disadvantage: they can be lacking in terms of representativeness, reliability, and replicability (Burawoy 1998, 26). Here we briefly review disciplinary trends in how political ethnographers justify their theoretical contributions. In political science, where ethnographic methods are relatively rare, ethnography is often deployed as a means of providing a contextualized ‘value added’ to studies on politics (Bayard de Volo and Schatz 2004; Fenno 1986). There appear to be two main ways in which this ‘value added’ is given: through historicizing and contextualizing the ethnographic case (Laitin 1986; Pereira 1997; Rubin 1997; Schatz 2004), and by using ethnography in a mixed methods approach, where the multiple methods are generally used to test some middle-range theory relevant to the case (Bayard de Volo 2001; Laitin 1986, 1998; Pereira 1997; Stokes 1995). Political scientists that use a mixed methods approach often combine ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with survey data (Laitin 1998; Pereira 1997; Stokes 1995). This is generally done as a way to improve the validity of a study (Bayard de Volo and Schatz 2004, 270). Tying ethnographic case data with either large national surveys or of surveys of the population being studied helps create results that speak not only to the particularities of the site, but also to a broader spectrum. In some cases, the ethnographic data become less important to the whole narrative, and the distinctiveness of ethnographic insights less central to the theoretical
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Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd The Ethnos in the Polis 151 political ethnographers are producing exciting studies that challenge received wisdom. Whether examining constituted political actors or simply events and moments that constitute the political, political ethnographers have at once given us better understanding of actors and institutions as well as challenged the presumed unity and coherence of these actors. Whether investigating the fuzzy boundaries of categorical actors like states or social movements, the importance of meaning to political action, or the political nature of the everyday, political ethnographers continue to push our understanding of politics forward. We have reviewed ethnographies of recognized political actors like social movements, ethnographies of encounters with the state, and ethnographies of the every day that are political. We have also sketched out some disciplinary trends in the deployment of political ethnography, and these might be thought of as disciplinary styles. In reviewing and discussing these styles, it has not been our intention to assert the superiority of one over another or even less, to reproduce the distinctions between them. Attention to what ethnographers do when they study politics and how they dialogue back to theory shows a range of styles and approaches. One need not subscribe to radical philosophy of science to recognize that these methodological stances to some extent shape substantive findings. Political ethnographies within political science occupy the least privileged position within the three disciplines. Nonetheless, these ethnographies stress the historical con- textualization needed to understand current political situations being studied. As a disciplinary style, we also find ethnographies being used in conjunction with other methods, with the intention of providing fuller, more complex, and possibly more valid or generalizable studies. Sociology gives us a nuanced method of testing theory with the extended case method, and political ethnographies in this style are attentive to extant theory but also call into question received wisdom. In anthropology, we find authors who are attentive to the everyday and who bring a number of insights about its relationship to politics, often outside of traditional settings like social movements or bureaucracies. In terms of relationship to theory, anthropology has authors who provide insights based on careful interpretation of practices in sites and some authors who engage in grander theorization; from this vantage point, the kind of theory testing of sociologists or political scientists might appear formalistic. Short Biographies Gianpaolo Baiocchi (PhD 2001: University of Wisconsin) writes on politics, culture, and theory. His most recent book, Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participation in Porto Alegre, was published by Stanford University Press.
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in the Polis © 2008 The Authors Sociology Compass 2/1 (2008): 139–155, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Brian T. Connor is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His primary research areas are culture, theory, and politics. Notes * Correspondence address: 240 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. Email: gp_baiocchi@mac.com. 1 To be published as an edited volume. 2 A small sampling of non-English works follows. In Portuguese, see Zaluar (1994) and Goldman (2003); in French, see Abeles (1989) and Briquet (1997); in Italian, see Gribualdi and Musella (1998) and Bassi (1996); in Spanish, see Isla and Taylor (1995) and Marcos (2006); in German, see Heidemann (2002) and Amborn (1993). 3 General theory is used here as a foil of middle-range theory. Middle-range theorizing, made popular by Merton ([1949] 1967), follows the belief that older, grand theories were too encompassing for empirically based social scientists to test. Less explanatory and grandiose theories, based on particular contexts and settings, are offered as a better epistemological base for social scientific research. General theory (or grand theory) does not specify the exact places where the theory can or should be applied. It crosses contexts, settings, individuals, and institutions. References Abeles, Marc 1989. Jours Tranquilles En 89. Ethnologie Politique D’Un Département Français. Paris: O. Jacob. Amborn, Hermann 1993. ‘Handlungsfähiger Diskurs: Reflexion und Aktionsforschung.’ Pp. 129–150 in Grundfragen der Ethnologie, edited by von Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik and Justin Stagl. Berlin: Reimer. Arias, Desmond 2006. Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Auyero, Javier 2001. Poor People’s Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Auyero, Javier 2003. Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Auyero, Javier 2006. ‘Introductory Note to Politics under the Microscope: Special Issue on Political Ethnography I.’ Qualitative Sociology 29: 257–259. Auyero, Javier 2007. Routine Politics and Collective Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power. New York: Cambridge University Press. Bailey, Robert Jr. 1974. Radical Urban Politics: The Alinsky Approach. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Baiocchi, Gianpaolo 2005. Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Banfield, Edward C. 1958. The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. Glencoe, IL: Free Press. Bassi, Marco 1996. I Borana: Una Società Assembleare. Milan, Italy: Franco Angeli. Bayard de Volo, Lorraine 2001. Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua 1979–1999. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Bayard de Volo, Lorraine and Edward Schatz 2004. ‘From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Methods in Political Research.’ PS: Political Science and Politics 37: 267–271. Bellah, Robert 1985. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (with Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Briquet, Jean-Louis 1997. La Tradition en Mouvement. Clientélisme et politique en Corse. Paris: Belin.
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