Introduction to Special Issue: The Transdisciplinary Travels of Ethnography:
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Transdisciplinary romance
- These critiques, in turn, have been articulated as responses to the shifts in the global relations of power emerging from post-World War II, anti-colonial liberation movements and, since the 1970s, from Indigenous, anti-globalization, and environmental justice struggles worldwide.
- Even how one conducts interviews or participant observation might have to be modified or entirely refigured according to the specificity of the research field.
Rethinking ethnography in neoliberal academia
- Such defensive mechanisms resulting in methodological turf-claiming may be triggered by the paranoid climate of the neoliberal restructuring of academia and the devaluation of qualitative inquiry.
- While they interrogate these problematic re-orientations, Denzin and Lincoln simultaneously caution against uncritical claims of qualitative ethicism that "can direct their attention away" from the ways in which qualitative inquiry and ethnography are "used to sell products in the consumer marketplace" (p. 7).
- While embodiment is pivotal to ethnographic practice, Van Loon stresses that "the body is never simply there, it is made, practised and processed," and suggests that it is precisely this processing, this "becoming-body," that is the work of ethnography (p. 22).
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...In her examination of the turbulent relationship between anthropology, ethnography, and cultural studies, Charmaine McEachern (1998) remarks that while the field of cultural studies has been influenced by anthropology’s critical reevaluation of the ethnographic enterprise in the 1980s,…...
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...In her examination of the turbulent relationship between anthropology, ethnography, and cultural studies, Charmaine McEachern (1998) remarks that while the field of cultural studies has been influenced by anthropology’s critical reevaluation of the ethnographic enterprise in the 1980s, anthropologists who are investigating their own contemporary society and culture could learn from cultural studies’ forms of ethnography whose main focus has been on identity and agency in capitalist societies....
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...…of anthropology) have dismissed such concerns as representative of academic turf-claiming (Turner, 2002; Youngblood, 2007) linked to an anthropological obsession with ethnography, especially in its more “traditional,” Malinowskian rendition (Green, 2010; Ingold, 2014; McLean, 2013; Widlok, 2009)....
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"Introduction to Special Issue: The ..." refers background in this paper
...…of anthropology) have dismissed such concerns as representative of academic turf-claiming (Turner, 2002; Youngblood, 2007) linked to an anthropological obsession with ethnography, especially in its more “traditional,” Malinowskian rendition (Green, 2010; Ingold, 2014; McLean, 2013; Widlok, 2009)....
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...Other perspectives (both within and outside of anthropology) have dismissed such concerns as representative of academic turf-claiming (Turner, 2002; Youngblood, 2007) linked to an anthropological obsession with ethnography, especially in its more “traditional,” Malinowskian rendition (Green, 2010; Ingold, 2014; McLean, 2013; Widlok, 2009)....
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...Appropriation anxieties expressed by anthropologists about ethnography might hence be assuaged whenever non-anthropologists help remind them of “the contemporary and trans-disciplinary relevance of ethnographic fieldwork” (Green, 2010, http://intergraph-journal. net/enhanced/vol3issue2/4.html)....
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