%0 Journal Article
%T Ethnography for a new global political economy? Marcus (1995) revisited, through the lens of Tsing and Nash
%A Terese Gagnon
%J Ethnography
%@ 1741-2714
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1466138117740366
%X In 1995 George Marcus wrote on the ¡®emergence of multi-sited ethnography¡¯, contrasting ethnography in the world and ethnography of the world. He seemed to anticipate that with increasing globalization, technological advances, and new economic conditions, multi-sited methods would become the hallmark of ethnography for the nascent age. More than two decades later, I reflect on Marcus¡¯s forecast. Anna Tsing has written perhaps the first monograph to fulfill Marcus¡¯s ¡®follow the thing¡¯ model, as a style of ethnography of the world, while June Nash exemplifies his description of ethnography in the world system. Here I compare the merits and challenges of the two ethnographic styles through their works. I consider whether Marcus¡¯s prediction has proven true. I conclude that both approaches are still relevant and, in fact, necessary complements to one another, just as post-capitalist and classic Marxist theories, far from being mutually exclusive, are vital tools for describing and understanding the world
%K multi-sited ethnography
%K methods
%K world systems theory
%K post-capitalism
%K holism
%K ¡®follow the thing¡¯
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1466138117740366