This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding ethnographic discussions, including those concerning reflexivity and positionality, while exploring evolving themes such as the experiential use of technologies. The open and honest accounts presented in the volume explore the perennial anxieties, doubts and uncertainties of ethnography. Rather than seek ways to mitigate these 'inconvenient' but inevitable aspects of academic research, the book instead finds significant value to these experiences.
Taking the position that collections of ethnographic work are better presented as transdisciplinary bricolage rather than as discipline-specific series, each chapter in the collection begins with a reflection on the existing impact and character of ethnographic research within the author's native discipline. The book will appeal to all academic researchers with an interest in qualitative methods, as well as to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding ethnographic discussions, including those concerning reflexivity and positionality, while exploring evolving themes such as the experiential use of technologies. The open and honest accounts presented in the volume explore the perennial anxieties, doubts and uncertainties of ethnography. Rather than seek ways to mitigate these 'inconvenient' but inevitable aspects of academic research, the book instead finds significant value to these experiences.
Taking the position that collections of ethnographic work are better presented as transdisciplinary bricolage rather than as discipline-specific series, each chapter in the collection begins with a reflection on the existing impact and character of ethnographic research within the author's native discipline. The book will appeal to all academic researchers with an interest in qualitative methods, as well as to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Tom Vine, Jessica Clark, Sarah Richards & David Weir.- Chapter 2. Home-grown Exoticism? Identity Tales from a New Age Intentional Community; Tom Vine.- Chapter 3. Wrestling with Online Avatars: Technology and Sexual Transformation; Paul Driscoll-Evans.- Chapter 4. Chóng ér fēi: Cultural Performances of Belonging in Intercountry Adoptive Families; Sarah Richards.- Chapter 5. Ethnographic Practices of Listening; Allison Boggis.- Chapter 6. Discussion and Collaboration in Diagnostic Radiography; Ruth Strudwick.- Chapter 7. Living with Uncertainty: The Ethnographer’s Burden; Steve Barnes.- Chapter 8. Managing Dissonance in Identity Construction; Derek Shaw.- Chapter 9. What Makes the Autoethnographic Analysis Authentic?; David Weir & Daniel Clarke.- Chapter 10. Inside the Sausage Factory: An Autoethnography of Working in a For-Profit University; Katie Best.- Chapter 11. An Auto-Ethnographic account of Gender and Workflow processes in a Commercial Laundry; David Weir.- Chapter 12. The Salience of Emotions in (Auto)Ethnography: Towards an Analytical Framework; Ilaria Boncori.- Chapter 13. It’s More than Deciding What to Wank Into: Negotiating an Unconventional Fatherhood; John Hadlow.- Chapter 14. Hate the Results? Blame the Methods: An Autoethnography of Contract Research; Will Thomas & Mirjam Southwell.- Chapter 15. Collaborative Autoethnography: Enhancing Reflexive Communication Processes; Ngaire Bissett, Sharon Saunders & Carolina Bouten Pinto.- Chapter 16. Methodology: From Paradigms to Paradox; Tom Vine.
Tom Vine is a senior lecturer at the University of Suffolk, UK. He
leads a suite of MBA programmes at Suffolk Business School where he
actively encourages his students to engage with a diverse range of
scholarly research beyond the realm of business studies. He is also
committed to expanding hitherto marginalised research methodologies
in his field. Jessica Clark is a senior lecturer at the
University of Suffolk, UK. She is a sociologist publishing in the
fields of children's sexual cultures, contemporary boyhoods,
children and popular culture and methodological issues in research
with children.
Sarah Richards is a senior lecturer at the University of Suffolk,
UK, where she teaches childhood and youth studies. She publishes in
the field of social policy with particular reference to
intercountry adoption policy and adoption narratives. Her
recent publications focus on interrogating research methodologies
with children.
David Weir is Professor of Intercultural Management at York St John
University, UK. He teaches intercultural management and has
published widely on organizational culture in the MENA countries
and written in a variety of ethnographic styles.
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