
Ethnographic Explorations
Surrender and Resistance
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-367-17441-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level.
In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explores a series of tensions and differences in the conceptualisation and conduct of ethnography, among them: Surrender and Catch; Strangeness and Familiarity; Intimacy and Distance; amd Romanticism and Modernism. It emphasises disruptions and interruptions rather than an idealised model of smoothly untroubled research. The book covers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, illustrated with research in many social settings.
The book is intended for researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels and at experienced researchers who want to read a different, sometimes challenging, take on ethnographic research and its outcomes.
In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explores a series of tensions and differences in the conceptualisation and conduct of ethnography, among them: Surrender and Catch; Strangeness and Familiarity; Intimacy and Distance; amd Romanticism and Modernism. It emphasises disruptions and interruptions rather than an idealised model of smoothly untroubled research. The book covers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, illustrated with research in many social settings.
The book is intended for researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels and at experienced researchers who want to read a different, sometimes challenging, take on ethnographic research and its outcomes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-17441-5 (9780367174415)
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Persons
Emilie Morwenna Whitaker is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Salford, UK, and an Honorary Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. Her recent publications include Reflexivity in Social Research (Palgrave 2021) also with Paul Atkinson.
Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. His recent publications include the last two books in his Ethnography quartet Writing Ethnographically (2020) and Crafting Ethnography (2022), both for SAGE Publications; the fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson, Ethnography: Principles in Practice, was published by Routledge in 2021.
Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. His recent publications include the last two books in his Ethnography quartet Writing Ethnographically (2020) and Crafting Ethnography (2022), both for SAGE Publications; the fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson, Ethnography: Principles in Practice, was published by Routledge in 2021.
Content
1. Commitments and the Field 2. Ethnography in Tension 3. Ethnography's Desire 4. Interrupted Lives and Ethnographic Moments 5. Ethnography Incarnate 6. Failed Modernism? Writing and the Grain of Everyday Life 7. The Catch and the Collector 8.Epilogue