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Urban ethnography : legacies and challenges / edited by Richard E. Ocejo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research in urban sociology ; 1047-0042 v. 16.
- Research in urban sociology, 1047-0042 ; volume 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life.
- Social psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2019]
- Summary:
- Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioners face today.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Volume Editor
- Series Editor
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Building Bridges in Urban Ethnography
- References
- Part I. The Legacy of the Chicago School
- From Chicago to Bologna: The Persistent Importance of the Chicago School in American and Italian Urban Sociology
- A Chicago School Overview: Community and Neighborhood
- The Chicago School Today: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
- The Chicago Lesson: Some Interviews
- "Listening to the Residents": The Impact of the School in Italy and in the Bolognese Studies
- The Ethnographic and Ecological Attention to Space: Some Conclusions
- Global Ethnography: Lessons from the Chicago School
- Introduction
- Global Ethnography as a Critique of the Chicago School
- What Does It Mean to Study the "Global" Ethnographically?
- The Global in the Chicago School
- The Global as Central to City Life
- Relationship between Place and Theory
- Theoretical and Methodological Tools
- Toward a Pluralist Approach to Global Ethnography
- Part II. How to Train Ethnographers
- Becoming the City: Teaching Urban Ethnography and Mentoring Urban Ethnographers
- Teaching Ethnography
- Teaching to See the City
- Walking the City
- Interactions and Institutions
- Communities and Networks
- Teaching to Be Part of a Scholarly Community
- Conclusion
- Teaching and Learning the Craft: The Construction of Ethnographic Objects
- Constructing Objects
- Teaching About Construction
- Theory
- Puzzle
- Warrants
- Claims and Evidence
- Local Point of View
- Epistemological Vigilance
- Notes
- References.
- Part III. Thinking about Space and Place
- Place Exploration: Six Tensions to Better Conceptualize Place as a Social Actor in Urban Ethnography
- Place in Urbanist Ethnography
- The Case for Place as a Social Actor
- Tensions in Place Exploration
- In/Out
- Order/Disorder
- Public/Private
- Present/Past
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
- Discrete/Diffuse
- Interaction Order as Cultural Sociology within Urban Ethnography
- Interaction Order as Cultural Sociology Within Urban Ethnography
- The Significance of the Urban Condition
- The Ghetto as Disorganization
- Contemporary Views of Urban Disorder
- Local Interaction Order as a Cultural Sociology
- Double Consciousness and the Interaction Orders of Race
- Outsiders versus Local Interaction Orders
- Suggestions for a Practice-based Moral Order
- Interaction Order and the Right to the City
- Visibility is Survival: The Chocolate Maps of Black Gay Life in Urban Ethnography
- Settings and Methods
- Mapping and Finding Black Gay Los Angeles
- Seeing is Being, Seeing is Believing
- The Missing Middle Class: Race, Suburban Ethnography, and the Challenges of "Studying Up"
- Getting Started
- Gaining Access to Middle-class Blacks
- Managing in the Field
- The Inclusion of White Respondents
- Developing Theoretical Contributions
- Part IV. Layered Identities
- Black (American) Girl in the Banlieue: Doing Race and Ethnography as an American in France
- Identities and Intersections in Urban Ethnography
- Encountering Paris
- Encountering the Banlieues
- Insider and Outsider: Blackness As Visible in France
- Moving Forward
- Final Thoughts
- The Gendered Dynamics of Urban Ethnography: What the Researcher's "Location" Means for the Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
- Early Ethnographic Knowledge About the City
- Gender and Urban Spaces
- Urban Research Relationships
- The Migrant Ethnographer: When the Field Becomes Home
- The Migrant/Expatriate/Foreign/Asian Academic
- Becoming an Asia Expat
- Being "Shanghaied"
- "An Asian Woman Walks into a Bar …"
- The Temptations of the City
- Eating Alone Together
- Ethnography as Place Making and Home Making
- We Middlemen Migrant Ethnographers
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781787690356
- 1787690350
- 9781787690332
- 1787690334
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