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“Friction” as Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing reminds us in her 2005 ethnography of global connection, “ is not just about slowing things down. Friction is required to keep global power in motion. […] Friction inflects historical trajectories, enabling, excluding, and particularizing” (6). Friction might include anything from bitter feuds between environmental activists, indigenous populations, and rainforest loggers in Indonesia, as in Tsing’s study, to miscommunications in a classroom that force students to explain what they (think they) mean by “Asian.” In all cases, however, it works as the place where “the rubber meets the road” (6), propelling participants forward into unstable collaborations and conflicts.
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Annett, S. (2014). Introduction: Frictive Pictures. In: Anime Fan Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137476104_1
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