New frontiers in ethnography / edited by Sam Hillyard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillyard, Sam.

Series:

Studies in qualitative methodology ; v. 11.

Studies in qualitative methodology, 1042-3192 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume seeks to address continuities and innovations within the ethnographic canon. It uses Hammersley's (1991) book What's wrong with ethnography to open and situate the debate, but then moves to engage with contemporary debates and arguments on both sides of the Atlantic. Today ethnography has matured to become the dominant research paradigm in some sub-disciplines, but it has also been forced to adapt in response to the theoretical challenge of post-structuralism. The book examines in detail the way some more innovative and problematic ways ethnographers have reacted. Throughout, the book seeks to present a critical, realised evaluation of the strength and limitations of ethnography for the future, by celebrating recent innovations, unusual applications or instances of ethnographic practice. Like Hammersley's book in 1991, it faces and challenges fundamental questions regarding ethnographys very contribution to knowledge. The chapters in this volume are designed to appeal to the novice and the experienced ethnographer; for those embarking on ethnographic work for the first time as well as those looking to move into new methodological directions.

Contents:

Introduction / Sam Hillyard

ch. 1. What's (still) wrong with ethnography? / Sam Hillyard

ch. 2. The vitality of ethnographic research on race / Gregory Jeffers, Rashawn Ray, Tim Hallett

ch. 3. On the value of Marxism in the understanding and analysis of social class in educational ethnography and the misunderstanding of class as an epistemological category by critics of Marxist and other critical traditions / Dennis Beach

ch. 4. Ethnography and the myth of participant observation / Martin G. Forsey

ch. 5. Dual ontologies and new ecologies of knowledge : rethinking the politics and poetics of 'touch' / Ian Stronach, Elizabeth Smears

ch. 6. Ethnography as dangerous, sad, and dirty work / Clinton Sanders

ch. 7. Naughty knickers, stick on nipples and Mrs. Doubtfire : the 'humourous' talk of post-mastectomy women / Emma Rowley

ch. 8. Envisioning undocumented historias : evoking a critical performance ethnography / Carl Bagley, Ricardo Castro-Salazar

ch. 9. How could you possibly know anything about that? Methodological congruence in the conduct of life history research / Chris Pole

ch. 10. Technology and the end of ethnography / Kevin Love.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612916175

9781282916173

1282916173

9781849509435

1849509433

OCLC:

693761403