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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...…borne witness to a transdisciplinary questioning of the relationships between knowledge and power (Fabian, 1983; Foucault, 1980; Mitchell, 1988; Mudimbe, 1988; Said, 1978; Spivak, 1988), further taken up in the work of feminist theorist Emma Pérez (1999); historian and postcolonial theorist…...
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...witness to a transdisciplinary questioning of the relationships between knowledge and power (Fabian, 1983; Foucault, 1980; Mitchell, 1988; Mudimbe, 1988; Said, 1978; Spivak, 1988), further taken up in the work of feminist theorist Emma Pérez (1999); historian and postcolonial theorist Dispeh Chakrabarty (2000); anthropologists Ann Stoler (2002), Gustavo Lins Ribero and Arturo Escobar (2006), and Rosalind Morris (2010); and qualitative researchers Norman K....
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...Ethnography “how-to” books and edited collections have proliferated in many disciplines and fields (e.g., Gobo, 2008; Pawluch, Shaffir, & Miall, 2005; Thomas, 1993)....
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...Any attempt at reducing ethnography to “method” risks compromising some of its most valuable features, including the notion of the partiality of ethnographic truths, the strategy of reflexivity, a commitment to cultural critique, and “writing against culture” (Abu-Lughod, 1991)....
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...…film, performance, drawings, sounds recordings, and so on—which could, to a certain extent, be taught and learned, yet ethnography is not a sum of various methods since it is performed differently by different individuals under different circumstances (Castañeda, 2006; Malkki, 2007; Wolcott, 2004)....
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