Jeffrey S. Juris

Jeffrey S. Juris
Northeastern University | NEU · Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Ph.D.

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Introduction
Jeffrey Juris is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. He is the author of Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization, and numerous articles on social movements, globalization, new media, and protest in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. He is also a co-editor of Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political. He is writing a new book about media and autonomy in Mexico.
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July 2011 - present
Northeastern University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
June 2011 - present
Northeastern University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
September 2009 - June 2011
Northeastern University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Education
August 1995 - May 2004
University of California, Berkeley
Field of study
  • Anthropology
September 1989 - May 1993
Wesleyan University
Field of study
  • Anthropology and Sociology

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Publications (57)
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The Occupy movements have given voice to the widespread frustration that so few (the 1%) seem to hold all the power. The vast majority (the 99%) lacks an (equal) say in the social, economic, financial, political and ecological processes that affect our lives. Inspired by the 2011 global wave of protests including the Arab Spring, the Greek resistan...
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Cultural approaches to the study of social movements are by now well ensconced in the pantheon of social movement theory as the field has moved beyond the overly rationalist, materialist, and institutional biases of resource mobilisation and early political process traditions. Responding to the challenge of new social movement theorists and the gen...
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This article examines the historical narratives inscribed in the material fabric of historic Jewish neighborhoods along a contemporary Jewish tourist route in Spain. Through an analysis of the guidebook, Paths of Sepharad, I explore the representation of Sephardic his- tory and culture with respect to the growing popularity of heritage tourism and...
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Despite the growing academic literature on the World Social Forum process, few scholars have attempted to systematically analyze the social, cultural, and political impact of the forums. This has to do in part with the inherent difficulties of assessing movement consequences, which is particularly complicated for an activity geared toward creating...
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Cultural approaches to the study of social movements are by now well ensconced in the pantheon of social movement theory as the field has moved beyond the overly rationalist, materialist, and institutional biases of resource mobilization and early political process traditions. Responding to the challenge of new social movement theorists and the gen...
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The Occupy movements have given voice to the widespread frustration that so few (the 1%) seem to hold all the power. The vast majority (the 99%) lacks an (equal) say in the social, economic, financial, political and ecological processes that affect our lives. Inspired by the 2011 global wave of protests including the Arab Spring, the Greek resistan...
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This article explores the links between social media and public space within the #Occupy Everywhere movements. Whereas listservs and websites helped give rise to a widespread logic of networking within the movements for global justice of the 1990s–2000s, I argue that social media have contributed to an emerging logic of aggregation in the more rece...
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Globalization entails growing interconnectedness across time and space due to the greater ease of international travel and enhanced information and communication technologies. Digitality, or the way social, cultural, and political life is increasingly organized through digital networks, is a critical feature of contemporary globalization. New digit...
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Las dos últimas décadas han sido testigos del surgimiento de un nuevo ciclo global de acción colectiva, organizada a través del internet y que se ha hecho visible durante protestas masivas, pero también ha sido configurado localmente por diversas organizaciones, redes, plataformas, y grupos. Con base en dos casos específicos en dos ciudades ibérica...
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This article explores the intersections between classic anarchist praxis and contemporary anti-corporate globalization activism in Barcelona. It engages in a sympathetic debate with two key literatures, pushing my argument in contrasting, yet ultimately related directions. I differ with accounts that emphasize an identity, arguing instead that anti...
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The past two decades have witnessed the rise of a new global cycle of collective action not only organized through the Internet and made visible during mass pro-test events, but also locally shaped by diverse organizations, networks, platforms and groups. Focusing on specific cases in two Iberian cities — Barcelona and Lisbon — we argue that this p...
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Through ethnographic fieldwork among young global justice activists based in Barcelona, Paris, Mexico City, and San Francisco, this article examines an emerging political praxis we call alter-activism. We argue that alter-activism represents an alternative mode of (sub-)cultural practice and an emerging form of citizenship among young people that p...
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The World Social Forum process has sought to provide an "open space" for diverse movements to exchange ideas, interact, and coordinate as they build another world. Despite this inclusive impulse, many of the forums have been disproportionately white and middle class. Through an ethnographic account of the 2007 United States Social Forum (USSF) in A...
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The first United States Social Forum (USSF) took place in Atlanta in the summer of 2007. To report and analyze this intense five-day event, we employ an innovative method, which we refer to as "distributed ethnography." This involves a large, multidisciplinary team of researchers who all contribute to our observational data and participate collabor...
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This article brings together the anthropological, sociological, and related literature on media, emotion, and performance to explore the role of counter-summit protests within anti-corporate globalization movements. Counter-summit actions produce both external and internal effects, allowing activists to communicate political messages, while generat...
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“Davos” has become synonymous with everything bad about globalization—capitalist imperialism, elitism, secrecy, and antidemocratic operations. Dating from the first confrontations at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2001, the World Social Forum has become the largest political gathering in human history and offers a direct challen...
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This article explores an emerging mode of political engagement among global justice activists in Barcelona and the transnational circuits through which they travel. Inspired by the Zapatistas and previous struggles against free trade, structural adjustment, and ecological destruction, activists have made innovative use of new technologies, creative...
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Enteringthefield.Newperspectivesonworldfootball. Edited by Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti. Oxford: Berg. 1997. 319 pp. Hb.: £14.95. ISBN 1 85973 198 8.
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Este artículo examina las narrativas históricas que se extienden por el entramado material de las antiguas juderías dentro de la ruta turística judía en España. A través del análisis de la guía, Caminos de Sefarad, se explora la representación de la historia y cultura sefardí respecto a la popularidad creciente del turismo patrimonial y la creación...
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The Battle of Genoa has become an iconic sign of wanton destruction, evoking images of tear gas, burning cars, and black clad protestors hurling stones and Molotov cocktails at advancing lines of heavily militarized riot police. In this article, I explore the complex relationship between performative violence and mass-mediated constructions of viol...
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The World Social Forum (WSF) emerged in the wake of a global wave of protest against capitalism characterized, in part, by the expression of broader political ideals through network-based organizational forms. The WSF was thus conceived as an "open space" for exchanging ideas, resources, and information; promoting initiatives; and generating concre...
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This article examines how anti–corporate globalization activists have used new digital technologies to coordinate actions, build networks, practice media activism, and physically manifest their emerging political ideals. Since the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, and through subsequent mobilizations against multilateral institutions an...
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Estudio desde la perspectiva antropológica sobre los movimientos antiglobalización. El autor quien ha participado en diferentes manifestaciones, desarrolla un análisis etnográfico del activismo internacional y las motivaciones que subyacen en los participantes de dichos movimientos, a partir de los casos de Seattle, EUA; Barcelona, España; y Genova...

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