Critical Ethnography
Dear AoIR-ers, Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography? Thanks -- *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com dnemer@indiana.edu
Hi David, Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you. Hope this helps, Peter On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Dear AoIR-ers,
Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
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I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro references: • Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. • Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing Members' Meanings." • Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." • Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. • Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. • "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. • Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness." Alex --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Student USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Hi David,
Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you.
Hope this helps, Peter
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Dear AoIR-ers,
Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
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Thanks Peter. Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical ethnography was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, oppression, taken-for-granted 'realities’, and ideologies. In this way, critical ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also ‘action-ing’ for change; by challenging false-consciousness and ideologies exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action" sense in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology studies. But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this methodology. I apologize if I didn't specified it enough. Thanks On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro references:
• Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. • Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing Members' Meanings." • Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." • Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. • Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. • "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. • Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness."
Alex
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Hi David,
Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you.
Hope this helps, Peter
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Dear AoIR-ers,
Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
Thanks -- *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com dnemer@indiana.edu _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Some suggestions that might be of interest - there is lots... Kamala Visweswaran (1994). Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. Patricia McNamara (2009). Feminist Ethnography Storytelling that Makes a Difference. Qualitative Social Work June 2009 vol. 8 no. 2 161-177. Olive, R. & Thorpe, H. (2011). Negotiating the 'F-word' in the field: doing feminist ethnography in action sport cultures. Sociology of Sport Journal 2011 Vol. 28 No. 4 pp. 421-440. Julia Archer (2009).Intersecting Feminist Theory and Ethnography in the Context of Social Work Research. Qualitative Social Work June 2009 vol. 8 no. 2, 143-160. Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis - edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (2012). Lila Abu-Lughod (2010).The Active Social Life of "Muslim Women's Rights": A Plea for Ethnography, Not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Volume 6, Number 1, Winter 2010 pp. 1-45. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of David Nemer Sent: February 6, 2013 8:10 PM To: Alex Leavitt Cc: aoir Subject: Re: [Air-L] Critical Ethnography Thanks Peter. Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical ethnography was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, oppression, taken-for-granted 'realities', and ideologies. In this way, critical ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also 'action-ing' for change; by challenging false-consciousness and ideologies exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action" sense in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology studies. But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this methodology. I apologize if I didn't specified it enough. Thanks On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro references:
. Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. . Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing Members' Meanings." . Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." . Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. . Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. . "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. . Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness."
Alex
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Hi David,
Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you.
Hope this helps, Peter
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Dear AoIR-ers,
Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
Thanks -- *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com dnemer@indiana.edu _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hi David, list... I might recommend Mitch Duneier's Sidewalk. A breezy read that belies it's intellectual and emancipatory heft. Cheers, Rob ________________________________________ Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Journalism & Electronic Media College of Media & Communication Texas Tech University Affiliated Faculty - Institute for Hispanic and International Communication Faculty Senate - 20122015 TTU Campus Coordinator - Global Lens Film Series Chair - Flatland Film Festival and Series Programming Committee p: 806.834.2562 f: 806.742.1085 robert.peaslee@ttu.edu http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/utilities/get_biog.php?record=102 On 2/6/13 7:09 PM, "David Nemer" <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Thanks Peter.
Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical ethnography was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, oppression, taken-for-granted 'realities¹, and ideologies. In this way, critical ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also Œaction-ing¹ for change; by challenging false-consciousness and ideologies exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action" sense in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology studies. But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this methodology.
I apologize if I didn't specified it enough.
Thanks
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro references:
€ Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. € Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing Members' Meanings." € Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." € Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. € Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. € "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. € Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness."
Alex
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Hi David,
Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you.
Hope this helps, Peter
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Dear AoIR-ers,
Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
Thanks -- *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com dnemer@indiana.edu _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hi David, Adding to the list of resources others have provided, here are a few off the top of my head. Some are reports of critical ethnographic studies, some are method/conceptual pieces done by scholars who have done ethnographies, and some are more related to critical approaches to interpretive/qualitative methods, not ethnography specifically. I have always found them very useful. If you notice it looks a bit heavy on the 'organization studies' side, that's not just because it's my PhD background. A lot of the advancement of critical ethnographic approaches has occurred in organization studies/science/communication arenas, so its an area rich with cases and exemplars. Sorry for the sloppy citations; just grabbing from here and there and....you get the picture.... ...Cheers, and by the way, I'd love to see the final bibliography you end up with (especially as I'm teaching a course in Critical Ethnography this semester and my students would find it very useful), annette Alvesson and Skoldberg's book: Reflexive methodologies. This book is generally excellent, but related to your question, they offer a great breakdown of what constitutes critical approaches, and critical ethnography) (Sage, 2009). Alvesson and Wilmott (2003). Studying Management Critically (Excellent edited volume (by Sage) with several great pieces....I tend to revisit those by Deetz, Forester, Martin, and Parker.) Ashcraft, K. (2001). Organized dissonance: Feminist bureaucracy as hybrid form. Academy of Management Journal 44(6), 1301- Conquergood, D. (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical cultural politics. Communication Monographs, 58, 179–194. Dei, Mazzuca, & McIsaac (1997). Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School. University of Toronto Press. Deetz, Stanley. (1992) Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life Albany: State University of New York. (book) Deetz, S. (1998). Discursive formations, strategized subordination, and self-surveillance: An empirical case. In A. McKinlay & K. Starkey (eds.), Foucault, management and organizational theory, (pp. 151-172). London: Sage. Fine, M. (1991). Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School. Suny Press. Forester, J. (1992). Critical ethnography: on fieldwork in a Habermasian way. In Alvesson and Wilmott's edited collection Critical Management Studies by Sage Press) Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. American journal of sociology, 85, 551-575. Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press. Marcus, G. & Fischer, M. (1982?). Anthropology as cultural critique. University of Chicago Press. Madison, Soyini (2012). Critical Ethnography: Method, ethics, and performance. (sage, textbook) Markham, A. (1996). Designing Discourse: A Critical Analysis Of Strategic Ambiguity and Workplace Control Management Communication Quarterly May 1, 1996 9: 389- Mumby, D. K., & Stohl, C. (1991). Power and Discourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control. Discourse and Society, 2, 313-332.Mumby, D.K. (1987) `The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations', Communication Monographs 54: 113-127. Mumby, D.K. (1988) Communication and Power in Organizations: Discourse, Ideology and Domination. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Mumby, D. K., & Putnam, L. (1992). The Politics of Emotion: A Feminist Reading of "Bounded Rationality." Academy of Management Review, 17, 465-486. Putnam, L., Bantz, C., Deetz, S., Mumby, D., & Van Maanen, J. (1993). Ethnography versus critical theory. Journal of Management Inquiry. 2, 221-235. Rosen, M. (1985) `Breakfast at Spiro's: Dramaturgy and Dominance', Journal of Management 11(2): 31-48. Rosen, M. (1986?). You asked for it: Christmas at the boss' expense. Journal of Management Studies, 25, 463- Shome, R. (2003). Space Matters: The power and practice of space. Communication Theory, 13(1) 39- Willis, Paul. (1981). Learning to Labor: How working class kids get working class jobs (book) Thomas, Jim (1992). Critical ethnography (Sage book). ******************************* Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham@gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee@ttu.edu> wrote:
Hi David, list...
I might recommend Mitch Duneier's Sidewalk. A breezy read that belies it's intellectual and emancipatory heft.
Cheers, Rob
________________________________________
Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Journalism & Electronic Media College of Media & Communication Texas Tech University
Affiliated Faculty - Institute for Hispanic and International Communication Faculty Senate - 20122015 TTU Campus Coordinator - Global Lens Film Series Chair - Flatland Film Festival and Series Programming Committee
p: 806.834.2562 f: 806.742.1085
robert.peaslee@ttu.edu
http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/utilities/get_biog.php?record=102
On 2/6/13 7:09 PM, "David Nemer" <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Thanks Peter.
Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical ethnography was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, oppression, taken-for-granted 'realities¹, and ideologies. In this way, critical ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also Œaction-ing¹ for change; by challenging false-consciousness and ideologies exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action" sense in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology studies. But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this methodology.
I apologize if I didn't specified it enough.
Thanks
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro references:
€ Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. € Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing Members' Meanings." € Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." € Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. € Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. € "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. € Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness."
Alex
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Alexander Leavitt PhD Student USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Hi David,
Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you.
Hope this helps, Peter
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Dear AoIR-ers,
Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
Thanks -- *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com dnemer@indiana.edu _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Thank you all for the additional sources. Annette, thanks for your list of references. Bringing up "critical ethnography" here on the list made me realize that this term is not as widespread or known as I naively thought. It reminded me of our last talk about how sometimes we take terms for granted as if they were known by everyone. This calls out for a literature review on the topic... with an attempt to map out the different terms (feminist, indigenous, critical, postcolonial methods / ethnography), what methods are used... convergence and divergences in the literature. I will try to come up with something and share the literature that I ended up with. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Annette Markham <amarkham@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David,
Adding to the list of resources others have provided, here are a few off the top of my head. Some are reports of critical ethnographic studies, some are method/conceptual pieces done by scholars who have done ethnographies, and some are more related to critical approaches to interpretive/qualitative methods, not ethnography specifically. I have always found them very useful.
If you notice it looks a bit heavy on the 'organization studies' side, that's not just because it's my PhD background. A lot of the advancement of critical ethnographic approaches has occurred in organization studies/science/communication arenas, so its an area rich with cases and exemplars.
Sorry for the sloppy citations; just grabbing from here and there and....you get the picture....
...Cheers, and by the way, I'd love to see the final bibliography you end up with (especially as I'm teaching a course in Critical Ethnography this semester and my students would find it very useful),
annette
Alvesson and Skoldberg's book: Reflexive methodologies. This book is generally excellent, but related to your question, they offer a great breakdown of what constitutes critical approaches, and critical ethnography) (Sage, 2009).
Alvesson and Wilmott (2003). Studying Management Critically (Excellent edited volume (by Sage) with several great pieces....I tend to revisit those by Deetz, Forester, Martin, and Parker.)
Ashcraft, K. (2001). Organized dissonance: Feminist bureaucracy as hybrid form. Academy of Management Journal 44(6), 1301-
Conquergood, D. (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical cultural politics. Communication Monographs, 58, 179–194.
Dei, Mazzuca, & McIsaac (1997). Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School. University of Toronto Press.
Deetz, Stanley. (1992) Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life Albany: State University of New York. (book)
Deetz, S. (1998). Discursive formations, strategized subordination, and self-surveillance: An empirical case. In A. McKinlay & K. Starkey (eds.), Foucault, management and organizational theory, (pp. 151-172). London: Sage.
Fine, M. (1991). Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School. Suny Press.
Forester, J. (1992). Critical ethnography: on fieldwork in a Habermasian way. In Alvesson and Wilmott's edited collection Critical Management Studies by Sage Press)
Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. American journal of sociology, 85, 551-575.
Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Marcus, G. & Fischer, M. (1982?). Anthropology as cultural critique. University of Chicago Press.
Madison, Soyini (2012). Critical Ethnography: Method, ethics, and performance. (sage, textbook)
Markham, A. (1996). Designing Discourse: A Critical Analysis Of Strategic Ambiguity and Workplace Control Management Communication Quarterly May 1, 1996 9: 389-
Mumby, D. K., & Stohl, C. (1991). Power and Discourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control. Discourse and Society, 2, 313-332.Mumby, D.K. (1987) `The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations', Communication Monographs 54: 113-127.
Mumby, D.K. (1988) Communication and Power in Organizations: Discourse, Ideology and Domination. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Mumby, D. K., & Putnam, L. (1992). The Politics of Emotion: A Feminist Reading of "Bounded Rationality." Academy of Management Review, 17, 465-486.
Putnam, L., Bantz, C., Deetz, S., Mumby, D., & Van Maanen, J. (1993). Ethnography versus critical theory. Journal of Management Inquiry. 2, 221-235.
Rosen, M. (1985) `Breakfast at Spiro's: Dramaturgy and Dominance', Journal of Management 11(2): 31-48.
Rosen, M. (1986?). You asked for it: Christmas at the boss' expense. Journal of Management Studies, 25, 463-
Shome, R. (2003). Space Matters: The power and practice of space. Communication Theory, 13(1) 39-
Willis, Paul. (1981). Learning to Labor: How working class kids get working class jobs (book)
Thomas, Jim (1992). Critical ethnography (Sage book).
******************************* Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham@gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee@ttu.edu> wrote:
Hi David, list...
I might recommend Mitch Duneier's Sidewalk. A breezy read that belies
it's
intellectual and emancipatory heft.
Cheers, Rob
________________________________________
Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Journalism & Electronic Media College of Media & Communication Texas Tech University
Affiliated Faculty - Institute for Hispanic and International Communication Faculty Senate - 20122015 TTU Campus Coordinator - Global Lens Film Series Chair - Flatland Film Festival and Series Programming Committee
p: 806.834.2562 f: 806.742.1085
robert.peaslee@ttu.edu
http://ttu.academia.edu/RobPeaslee http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/utilities/get_biog.php?record=102
On 2/6/13 7:09 PM, "David Nemer" <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Thanks Peter.
Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical ethnography was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, oppression, taken-for-granted 'realities¹, and ideologies. In this way, critical ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also Œaction-ing¹ for change; by challenging false-consciousness and ideologies exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action" sense in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology studies. But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this methodology.
I apologize if I didn't specified it enough.
Thanks
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro references:
€ Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text. € Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing Members' Meanings." € Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology." € Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1. € Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix. € "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin. € Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness."
Alex
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
Hi David,
Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to you.
Hope this helps, Peter
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Dear AoIR-ers,
Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
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Hi David Something else that gave me a sense of the debates in reflexive ethnography is a special 1999 (turn-of-the-century!) issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: volume 28, Issue 5. Some of the better reflexive ethnographic writers are there, including Norman Denzin and Ruth Behar. Also, for a very readable reflexive book that I really liked: Cerwonka, A. & Malkki, L. H. Improvising Theory: Process and temporality in ethnographic fieldwork. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Good luck! Mary-Helen -- MARY-HELEN WARD | Education Design Manager: Sciences Technology and Business Sydney eLearning | Office of the DVC Education THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 7399 | F +61 2 9036 0000 | M +61 402 388424 On 8/02/13 10:18 AM, "David Nemer" <dnemer@indiana.edu> wrote:
Thank you all for the additional sources.
Annette, thanks for your list of references. Bringing up "critical ethnography" here on the list made me realize that this term is not as widespread or known as I naively thought. It reminded me of our last talk about how sometimes we take terms for granted as if they were known by everyone. This calls out for a literature review on the topic... with an attempt to map out the different terms (feminist, indigenous, critical, postcolonial methods / ethnography), what methods are used... convergence and divergences in the literature. I will try to come up with something and share the literature that I ended up with.
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