TY - JOUR AU - Lapegna, Pablo PY - 2009/02/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Ethnographers of the World?United? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 15 IS - 1 SE - Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research DO - 10.5195/jwsr.2009.336 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/336 SP - 3-24 AB - How does ethnography come to terms with our current ?global condition?? Being a method characterized by its in-depth knowledge of a bounded space, how does ethnography cope with a world scale? How does the ?global condition? affect the definitions of key ethnographic concepts? In this article, I first reconstruct ethnographic debates regarding the status of ?the global,? showing how ethnography can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the binary global/local. Then I review two projects that study global processes from an ethnographic point of view: multi-site ethnography (Marcus 1995) and global ethnography (Burawoy et al. 2000). I compare these two approaches along four dimensions: site, context, research design and reflexivity. I argue that while multi-site ethnography and global ethnography are often used interchangeably, each ultimately presents distinctive answers to key questions for the ethnographic study of global processes. ER -