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 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.

Contents:

Intro

ETHNOGRAPHY UNBOUND

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Introduction: New Writers of the Cultural Sage From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical Praxis by STEPHEN GILBERT BROWN and SIDNEY I. DOBRIN

PART I: Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives

2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor by BRUCE HORNER

3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning by MARY JO REIFF

4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies by CHRISTOPHER SCHROEDER

5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical Ethnography by GWEN GORZELSKY

6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical Education by LYNÉE LEWIS GAILLET

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

7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies by ROBERT BROOKE and CHARLOTTE HOGG

8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism? by JOHN SYLVESTER LOFTY

9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that "Makes a Difference" by SHARON McKENZIE STEVENS

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

10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition Classroom by SUSAN S. HANSON

11. Unsituating the Subject: "Locating" Composition and Ethnography in Mobile Worlds by CHRISTOPHER KELLER

12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal by JANET ALSUP

PART IV: Ethnographies of Cultural Change

13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and Representation by BRONWYN T. WILLIAMS and MARY BRYDON-MILLER.

14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary by LANCE MASSEY

PART V: Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices

15. The Ethics of Reading Critical Ethnography by MIN-ZHAN LU

16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical Ethnography by STEPHEN GILBERT BROWN

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791485224

0791485226

9781417575855

1417575859

OCLC:

57566597