摘要：The globalization process destabilizes the meaning of the key concepts (e.g., site, place, and local) of ethnography because of the increasing impact of world-wide interconnectedness and interdependence. Thus, an ethnographic research conducted in a single place is not helpful to understand the complexity of the globalization process. An ethnographic research needs to take into account the multiplicity of global network and flows that overlap with one another in the global and local to better understand the globalized world. Therefore, the multi-sited ethnography has developed to overcome the risk of avoiding the complexity of the global circulation and its impact on the local. This article examines the development of the multi-sited ethnography to better understand the globalization process. As an example of the multi-sited ethnography, this article examines Carolyn Nordstrom’s ethnographic study of Global Outlaws. Her work highlights the links between the local, national and global by paying attention to the context of multi sites to understand how global capitalism works.
