The Ethnographic Case.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates-Doerr, Emily.

Contributor:

Labuski, Christine.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Mattering Press, 2023.

Summary:

The 1st Edition of The Ethnographic Case, published in 2017, was an experiment in post-publication peer review, with the book published online and open to comments from readers. In this new 2nd edition, to be published later this year, the editors and authors have updated the text, both in response to these comments and taking into account changing contexts in the years since the book's first publication. The Ethnographic Case: A doctor injects turpentine into the leg of a dying patient; the patient lives and years later a granddaughter uses this story of survival to write a story of her own. A refugee is questioned in court for falsifying paternity; a cultural expert intervenes to develop a legal case for kinship that exceeds DNA. The actions of a caring father pose a dilemma for how a filmmaker represents Ecuadorian sex workers. In all three chapters, "the case" shapes possibilities for action. In each chapter, the practice of case-making is also specific to the details of the case. The Ethnographic Case challenges a widespread academic inclination to treat concepts as immutable mobiles. The contributions to this volume develop "ethnographic casing" as a technique of attending to heterogeneities in systems of thought. Medical cases. Legal cases. Museum showcases. Detective cases. Some cases featured are violent, others compassionate; some set stereotypes in motion, others break them down. Connected more by difference than similarity, the "cases" in this volume make a case for the virtue of relational science. This is a science that is not beholden to master narratives, but which embraces the double-work of caring for detail, while caring for the practices through which one learns to care. In 26 gripping and provocative installations, the volume showcases research from numerous influential feminist and decolonial scholars. Where anthropology has long sought to identify patterns in culture, this volume makes space for inquiry focused on particularities and advocates for an intellectual politics where that which seemingly doesn't fit is still allowed to matter.

Contents:

Intro

List of figures

Author biographies

0 · Foreword

1 · Introduction

2 · Exemplary: The case of the farmer and the turpentine

3 · Autophony: Listening to your eyes move

4 · Encased: Plotting attentions through distraction

5 · No judgments: Fieldwork on the spectrum

6 · Facial paralysis: Somaticising frustration in Guatemala

7 · 'He didn't blow us up' - routine violence and non-event as case

8 · What's in a name? A case of trafficking in other people's stories

9 · Normalising sexually violated bodies: Sexual assault adjudication, medical evidence and the legal case

10 · Case by case

11 · The case of the ugly sperm

12 · Waiting in the face of bare life

13 · Crossing boundaries: The case for making sense with the sense-able

14 · Swamp dialogues: Filming ethnography

15 · What is a family? Refugee DNA and the possible truths of kinship

16 · A polygraphic casebook

17 · Travelling within the case

18 · The case of the cake: Dilemmas of giving and taking

19 · From fish lives to fish law: Learning to see Indigenous legal orders in Canada

20 · Ethnographic case, legal case: From the spirit of the law to the law of the spirit

21 · The enclosed case

22 · Making cases for a technological fix: Germany's energy transition and the green good life

23 · Filming sex/gender: The ethics of (mis)representation

24 · Three millimetres

25 · The discernment of knowledge: Sexualised violence in the Mennonite church

26 · Earthly togetherness: Making a case for living with worms

27 · Refusing extraction: Unearthing the messiness of activist research

28 · Fixing things, moving stories

29 · The ethnographic case: In-conclusion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-912729-32-6

OCLC:

1424719240