Reflexive Ethnographic Practice
Three Generations of Social Researchers in One Place
Editors: Kearney, Amanda, Bradley, John (Eds.)
Free Preview- A revealing account of ethnographic fieldwork in the context of one Indigenous community in northern Australia
- Combines personal and professional accounts of the challenges and benefits of long-term collaboration and ethnographic encounters with Indigenous peoples
- Explores critical reflexivity through ethnographic approaches of “responsive reflexivity,” “bracketing,” “introspection,” “inter-subjective reflection,” “mutual collaboration,” and “ironic deconstruction”
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- About this book
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Putting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers. In the context of a remote Indigenous Australian community in northern Australia, these researchers—anthropologists, an archeologist, a literary scholar, and an artist—encounter reflexivity and ethnographic practice through deeply personal and professionally revealing accounts of anthropological consciousness, relational encounters, and knowledge sharing. In six discrete chapters, the authors reveal the complexities that run through these relationships, considering how any one of us builds knowledge, shares knowledge, how we encounter different and new knowledge, and how well we are positioned to understand the lived experiences of others, whilst making ourselves fully available to personal change. At its core, this anthology is a meditation on learning and friendship across cultures.
- About the authors
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Amanda Kearney is Matthew Flinders Fellow and Professor of Indigenous and Australian Studies at Flinders University, Australia.
John Bradley is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Monash Indigenous Centre at Monash University, Australia.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction: The Scene for a Reflexive Practice
Pages 1-38
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Writing from the Edge: Writing What Was Never Meant to Be Written
Pages 39-64
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Mobility of Mind: Can We Change Our Epistemic Habit Through Sustained Ethnographic Encounters?
Pages 65-94
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Mapping the Route to the Yanyuwa Atlas
Pages 95-123
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“Invisible Things in Nature”: A Reflexive Reading of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
Pages 125-152
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Reflexive Ethnographic Practice
- Book Subtitle
- Three Generations of Social Researchers in One Place
- Editors
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- Amanda Kearney
- John Bradley
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-34898-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-34898-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-34897-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 219
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
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