Overview
- Promotes a transdisciplinary approach for ethnographic research
- Reframes long standing ethnographic discussions, such as those concerning positionality and reflexivity
- Demonstrates the value and versatility of ethnography as a research method
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding ethnographic discussions, including those concerning reflexivity and positionality, while exploring evolving themes such as the experiential use of technologies. The open and honest accounts presented in the volume explore the perennial anxieties, doubts and uncertainties of ethnography. Rather than seek ways to mitigate these ‘inconvenient’ but inevitable aspects of academic research, the book instead finds significant value to these experiences.
Taking the position that collections of ethnographic work are better presented as transdisciplinary bricolage rather than as discipline-specific series, each chapter in the collection begins with a reflection on the existing impact and character of ethnographic research within the author’s native discipline. The book will appeal to all academic researchers with an interest in qualitative methods, as well as to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Reviews
“This book derives from a multidisciplinary conference whose contributors applied ethnographic methods in widely different venues. We gain insights from sociology, social psychology, social policy management and philosophy - in both normative and commercial contexts. The book therefore offers rich bases for comparison allowing an editorial focus on established practices and accepted problems in some disciplines and facilitating application to others. It is thus well set to present the personal dilemmas that ethnography inevitably presents - (hence the book’s subtitle) and to offer mutual learning from divergent experience. The result is a rich collection of variations that could easily have produced an uncoordinated mishmash. This has been avoided by the skillful editing of its disparate inputs - all united by a demonstrated regard for ethnography. The result is a contribution to social science that should rightfully set ethnography at the centre of social science endeavour.” (Gerald Mars, UCL, UK)
“Tom Vine and colleagues have produced a genuinely thought-provoking contribution to the literature on contemporary ethnographic research. This innovative analysis of the varied uses of ethnography in social research is highly recommended for students and academics alike. Rich in concepts and intellectual reflection, this is an engaging book that those interested in the “ethnographic turn” will love.” (John Hassard, University of Manchester, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jessica Clark is a senior lecturer at the University of Suffolk, UK. She is a sociologist publishing in the fields of children's sexual cultures, contemporary boyhoods, children and popular culture and methodological issues in research with children.
Sarah Richards is a senior lecturer at the University of Suffolk, UK, where she teaches childhood and youth studies. She publishes in the field of social policy with particular reference to intercountry adoption policy and adoption narratives. Her recent publications focus on interrogating research methodologies with children.
David Weir is Professor of Intercultural Management at York St John University, UK. He teaches intercultural management and has published widely on organizational culture in the MENA countries and written in a variety of ethnographic styles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnographic Research and Analysis
Book Subtitle: Anxiety, Identity and Self
Editors: Tom Vine, Jessica Clark, Sarah Richards, David Weir
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58555-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58554-7Published: 28 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58555-4Published: 19 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 315
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Ethnography, Research Methods in Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Methodology of the Social Sciences