I am going to start three threads that I don't plan to finish TODAY, but leave open for when I have the time to come back.
The first one is on teaching ethnography during a pandemic. I warned AGAINST doing fieldwork or ethngoraphy right now raulpacheco.org/2020/03/fieldw…
HOWEVER...
The first one is on teaching ethnography during a pandemic. I warned AGAINST doing fieldwork or ethngoraphy right now raulpacheco.org/2020/03/fieldw…
HOWEVER...
I do NOT think we should stop teaching ethnography, how to write field notes and how to carry a fieldwork notebook.
On the contrary, I think we SHOULD continue teaching ethnography, with a proviso that fieldwork will be next to impossible to carry out (same w/field experiments)
On the contrary, I think we SHOULD continue teaching ethnography, with a proviso that fieldwork will be next to impossible to carry out (same w/field experiments)
(BTW if you're teaching how to write field notes and how to keep a fieldwork journal/notebook, this article of mine might help journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…)
A couple of weeks ago I taught a class on ethnography where I argued that there are at least 3 sources of sophistication in...
A couple of weeks ago I taught a class on ethnography where I argued that there are at least 3 sources of sophistication in...
... ethnographic work.
1) Entering the field (whether it's under challenging conditions or not, it's still hard)
2) Gaining trust within the community
3) Giving voice without supressing/mis-representing the community we are studying
An additional element of sophistication:
1) Entering the field (whether it's under challenging conditions or not, it's still hard)
2) Gaining trust within the community
3) Giving voice without supressing/mis-representing the community we are studying
An additional element of sophistication:
4) Transparency, reproducibility, replicability and open social science.
These four elements of sophistication in ethnographic fieldwork can still be taught even without going on to the field. McGranahan (2014) suggests we can teach how do develop an ethnographic sensibility...
These four elements of sophistication in ethnographic fieldwork can still be taught even without going on to the field. McGranahan (2014) suggests we can teach how do develop an ethnographic sensibility...
... even without fieldwork (see McGranahan 2014: teachinganthropology.org/ojs/index.php/…)
and
sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/article/… (McGranahan 2018)
I've written before about the importance of ethnographic sensibility raulpacheco.org/2016/09/on-hav…
I think this is another key component of teaching ethnography
and
sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/article/… (McGranahan 2018)
I've written before about the importance of ethnographic sensibility raulpacheco.org/2016/09/on-hav…
I think this is another key component of teaching ethnography
I still haven't formulated well my syllabus if I want to teach ethnography, but I'd like to at least include the following elements:
1. Ethnography - what is it and what does not constitute ethnography?
2. Ethnographic sensibilities and how to develop them
3. Fieldwork (how to)
1. Ethnography - what is it and what does not constitute ethnography?
2. Ethnographic sensibilities and how to develop them
3. Fieldwork (how to)
4. Field note and fieldwork notebooks (how to)
5. Doubly-engaged ethnography: ethics in fieldwork
6. Levels of ethnographic sophistication
7. Challenges and obstacles to engaging in ethnographic fieldwokr
8. Ethnography across disciplines.
9. Writing ethnography.
5. Doubly-engaged ethnography: ethics in fieldwork
6. Levels of ethnographic sophistication
7. Challenges and obstacles to engaging in ethnographic fieldwokr
8. Ethnography across disciplines.
9. Writing ethnography.
Somewhere around there, probably 4.5 Research design: when should we do ethnography (and when should we use another research method)
4.6 Designing ethnographic fieldwork projects
10. Future and present challenges in ethnographic theory and method
4.6 Designing ethnographic fieldwork projects
10. Future and present challenges in ethnographic theory and method
Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media buff.ly/3aJF5tv
This Annual Review of Anthropology methods piece by the incomparable @BiellaColeman is spectacular. Since I'm still formulating my syllabus, I will need to include this in the "digital ethnography" section.
This Annual Review of Anthropology methods piece by the incomparable @BiellaColeman is spectacular. Since I'm still formulating my syllabus, I will need to include this in the "digital ethnography" section.
Geoffrey Walford provoking us again: Ethnography is Not Qualitative tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…
(yes, my first impression was also that DAFUQ is wrong with Walford, but I get what he's implying)
(yes, my first impression was also that DAFUQ is wrong with Walford, but I get what he's implying)
