I have this dream of doing a Worldwide Reading Group on "Writing Ethnographies", where we read and discuss:

- Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field"
- Ghodsee's "From Notes to Narrative"
- McGranahan's edited volume "Writing Anthropology"
- Narayan's "Alive in the Writing"
Obviously then you get into "HEY YOU DIDN'T COVER HOW TO WRITE FIELD NOTES".

Well, yes. Ok fine. Let's take Van Maanen as one of the books on "how to write field notes". If we exchange, then we have to add:

- Goodall's "Writing the New Ethnography"

And now on fieldnotes.
- Emerson, Fretz & Shaw - "Writing Field Notes"
- Sanjek's edited volume, "Fieldnotes"
- Vivanco's "Field Notes"

And OBVIOUSLY Pacheco-Vega 2019 😅😆😂🤣

But then if I talk about writing ethnographies and field notes, also have to talk about analysis?

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Yes, I'm stupid enough to add one more thing to my plate... Image
At least the reading list is taking shape.

Thinking through this "Writing Ethnographies" syllabus also leads me to think about how I would craft a Basic Ethnography class and an Advanced Ethnography course. Image

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27 Jun
Le había prometido a @CaesarRRZ y a @camilofidel_ que iba a escribir un hilo sobre cómo generar un Esqueleto ("Outline") de un documento científico, ya sea ponencia, artículo, capítulo de libro, o capítulo de la tesis. Ya había escrito uno el año pasado y lo encontré! 😄
Ahora voy a poner en acción mis estrategias para crear un Esqueleto de un documento en español, un capítulo de libro con el que me comprometí a participar en un libro editado por los profes @odmeza y @moyadiaz1980 Me permite también mostrar el asunto del Diseño de Investigación
Lo primero que hago es presentar lo que sabemos (“el estado del arte sobre la cuestión”, “la revisión de la literatura”)

Noten que incluso en mis notas de borrador incluyo autores relevantes a citar.

El capítulo es un análisis comparativo de suministro privado y público. Image
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25 Jun
Designing my “Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation” course for Fall 2021. While my draft notes are perfectly readable, I like making sense of my ideas by transcribing my scribbles and using different colour fineliners. Image
As I switch categories (from “Analysis” to “Interpretation”) I also switch colours. This change helps me maintain conceptual clarity and differentiate between different stages of the qualitative research process. Image
Note how for the third category (“Reporting”) I switched again colours. Image
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25 Jun
Everyone, recommend Dr. Hughes some ethnography books. I have a few recommendations.

@anapggarza "Care for Sale" OUP

@HugoCA15 "Privilege at Play" OUP

@MaxLiboiron "Pollution is Colonialism" (not specifically ethnography but AMAZING book)

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.@sladner "Practical Ethnography"

@matorrew "Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico"

@miriamboeri & Rashi Shukla's edited volume "Inside Ethnography"
I also recommend Davis and Craven's feminist ethnography

Also, $200 USD is not going to get you anywhere at Routledge or SAGE.

rowman.com/ISBN/978075912…
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12 Jun
I confess that I sometimes feel envious when I read someone on Twitter (or hear it in in my writing groups) saying "I'm going to start reading for a new project".

I have concurrent projects, most of the time, so THAT feeling of "ok, I'm going to sit down and START READING",
... is super foreign to me.

The only time when I "sit down and start reading" is when I'm preparing a new course syllabus.

Obviously, this "sit down and start reading" will need to happen for the Fieldwork edited volume that @Pran_eeta and I are working on.

BUT, generally,
... generally speaking, I'm reading All The Time.

I don't feel like I've had an opportunity (as I did when I did my doctorate) to just "sit down and start a new project". I have always felt like I finish something and WHAM BAM off we go to the next one, ASAP.

Though....
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11 Jun
THREAD: On how to craft an argument contrasting evidence, theoretical expectations and make an opening for a contribution and new theories (or empirically testing a theory).

I'm reading an article that is a synthesis of different approaches to studying homelessness.
O’Regan, K. M., Ellen, I. G., & House, S. (2021). How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 693(1), 322–332. doi.org/10.1177/000271…

O'Regan and coauthors synthesize lessons learned on homelessness.
Note first how they set up the theoretical expectation:

"If homelessness is at root a housing affordability problem, then providing more affordable housing would seem to be the most direct way to address it. " (p. 323)

This approach follows the "They Say/I Say" model
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11 Jun
Ayer en clase de Métodos Mixtos (este cuatrimestre estoy dando tanto el curso de maestría como el de doctorado) les comenté a mis estudiantes sobre cómo podían estructurar sus tesis de suerte que coincidieran tanto con mi enfoque de métodos mixtos como con sus seminarios de tesis
Y como me pidieron consejo sobre la estructura de la tesis, ABRO HILO 🧶 para mi Twitter hispanoparlante.

Primero que nada, una tesis, contra lo que les puedan decir, es un producto resultado del diálogo entre ustedes (tesistas), su asesor/a y su comité tutorial.
Ustedes pueden decidir qué quieren hacer una tesis sobre los distintos repertorios de movilización de activistas ambientales que protestan contra las mineras canadienses, por ejemplo.

Pero eso es solo un tema. A partir de ahí deben establecer una pregunta de investigación.
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