Inside Ethnography : Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations / Rashi K. Shukla, Miriam Boeri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boeri, Miriam, Editor.

Shukla, Rashi K., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Research--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

While some books present “ideal” ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society’s margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their cutting-edge work with honesty and introspection, drawing readers into the field to reveal the challenges they have faced. Representing disciplinary approaches from criminology, sociology, anthropology, public health, business, and social work, and designed explicitly for courses on ethnographic and qualitative methods, crime, deviance, drugs, and urban sociology, the authors portray an evolving methodology that adapts to the conditions of the field while tackling emerging controversies with perceptive sensitivity. Their judicious advice on how to avoid pitfalls and remedy missteps provides unusual insights for practitioners, academics, and undergraduate and graduate students.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. Going Native with Evil

2. Lost in the Park: Learning to Navigate the Unpredictability of Fieldwork

3. Unearthing Aggressive Advocacy: Challenges and Strategies in Social Service Ethnography

4. Going into the Gray: Conducting Fieldwork on Corporate Misconduct

5. Hide-and-Seek: Challenges in the Ethnography of Street Drug Users

6. Into the Epistemic Void: Using Rapid Assessment to Investigate the Opioid Crisis

7. Conducting International Reflexive Ethnography: Theoretical and Methodological Struggles

8. Hidden: Accessing Narratives of Parental Drug Dealing and Misuse

9. Navigating Stigma: Researching Opioid and Injection Drug Use among Young Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in New York City

10. Dangerous Liaisons: Reflections on a Serial Ethnography

11. The Emotional Labor of Fieldwork with People Who Use Methamphetamine

12. Ethnography of Injustice: Death at a County Jail

Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520970458

0520970454

OCLC:

1158121088