Leaving the field : methodological insights from ethnographic exits / edited by Robin James Smith and Sara Delamont.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Robin James, editor.

Delamont, Sara, 1947- editor.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Fieldwork.

Social sciences.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Robin James Smith is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University.

Sara Delamont is Emerita Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Summary:

Through accounts of ethnographers' various exits from the field, this book draws attention to an overlooked but essential part of the research process, and contributes to more general discussions of ethnography.

Contents:

Leaving the field: an editors’ introduction / Sara Delamont and Robin James Smith

Part I. Entanglements and im/perfect exits

1. Finishing fieldwork in less than perfect circumstances: lessons learned in ‘labyrinth’ exiting / Alexandra Allan and Sarah Cole

2. Exeunt omnes!! The case for bad exits in ethnography / Sally Campbell Galman

3. Reflections on care and attachment in the ‘departure lounge’ of ethnography / Alex McInch and Harry C.R. Bowles

4. Unfinished business: a reflection on leaving the field / Gareth M. Thomas

5. Materia erotica: making love among glass-blowers / Erin O’Connor

Part II. Troubling the field

6. Those who never leave us / Jessica Nina Lester and Allison Daniel Anders

7. Déjà vu et jamais vu: what happens when the field expands in ways that mean there is no exit? / Dawn Mannay

8. Student voices ‘echo’ from the ethnographic field / Janean Robinson, Barry Down and John Smyth

9. Public space and visible poverty: research fields without exit / Andrew P. Carlin

10. ‘The martial will never leave your bones’: embodying the field of the Kung Fu family / George Jennings

Part III. Intermissions and returns

11. Between open and closed: recursive exits and returns to the fuzzy field of a community library across a decade of austerity / Alice Corble

12. On the importance of intermissions in ethnographic fieldwork: lessons from leaving New York / Joe Williams

13. Can you remember? Leaving and returning to the field in longitudinal research with people living with dementia / Andrew Clark and Sarah Campbell

14. A constant apprenticeship in martial arts: the messy longitudinal dynamics of never leaving the field / David Calvey

Part IV. Returns, responsibilities and representations after ‘leaving’

15. A cautionary tale about ‘respondent validation’: the dissonant meeting of ‘field self’ and ‘author self’ / Daniel Burrows

16. Commenting on legal practice: research relationships and the impact of criticism / Daniel Newman

17. Emotional honesty and reflections on problematic positionalities when conducting research in another country / Ashley Rogers.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 22, 2023).

ISBN:

9781526179708

1526179709

9781526157669

1526157667

OCLC:

1389792378