Ethnography unbound : from theory shock to critical praxis / edited by Stephen Gilbert Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Stephen Gilbert, 1949-

Dobrin, Sidney I., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 326 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2004]

Summary:

These provocative new essays redefine the goals, methods, and assumptions of qualitative and ethnographic research in composition studies, making evident not only the crucial importance of ethnographic research, but also its resilience as well. As "Ethnography Unbound makes evident, critical ethnographies are retheorizing their methodologies in ways that both redefine ethnographic practices and values and, at the same time, have begun to liberate ethnographic practices from the often-disabling stronghold of postmodern critique. Showing how ethnography works through dialogic processes and moves toward political ends, this collection opens the doors to rethinking ethnographic research in composition studies.

Contents:

1. Introduction. New Writers of the Cultural Sage: From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical Praxis / Stephen Gilbert Brown, Sidney I. Dobrin 1

I. Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives

2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor / Bruce Horner 13

3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning / Mary Jo Reiff 35

4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies / Christopher Schroeder 53

5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical Ethnography / Gwen Gorzelsky 73

6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical Education / Lynee Lewis Gaillet 99

II. Place-Conscious Ethnographies: Situating Praxis in the Field

7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies / Robert Brooke, Charlotte Hogg 115

8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism? / John Sylvester Lofty 131

9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that "Makes a Difference" / Sharon McKenzie Stevens 157

III. The Nomadic Self: Reorganizing the Self in the Field

10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition Classroom / Susan S. Hanson 183

11. Unsituating the Subject: "Locating" Composition and Ethnography in Mobile Worlds / Christopher Keller 201

12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal / Janet Alsup 219

IV. Ethnographies of Cultural Change

13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and Representation / Bronwyn T. Williams, Mary Brydon-Miller 241

14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary / Lance Massey 259

V. Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices

15. The Ethics of Reading Critical Ethnography / Min-Zhan Lu 285

16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical Ethnography / Stephen Gilbert Brown 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791460517

0791460525

OCLC:

52720623