[Air-L] Critical Ethnography

[Peaslee, Robert]

Hi David, list...

I might recommend Mitch Duneier's Sidewalk. A breezy read that belies it's
intellectual and emancipatory heft.

Cheers,
Rob

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On 2/6/13 7:09 PM, "David Nemer" <dnemer at indiana.edu> wrote:

>Thanks Peter.
>
>Alex, thanks for your references but what I meant by critical ethnography
>was the use of ethnography that attempts to break open power, oppression,
>taken-for-granted 'realities¹, and ideologies.  In this way, critical
>ethnography goes beyond much qualitative description of culture by also
>Œaction-ing¹ for change; by challenging false-consciousness and ideologies
>exposed through investigative examination. It has a "active & action"
>sense
>in it. It is usually seen in postcolonial science and technology studies.
>But I was hoping to get references that talks specifically about this
>methodology.
>
>I apologize if I didn't specified it enough.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I'd like to hope that all ethnography is critical, but here's some intro
>> references:
>>
>> € Karen O'Reilly, "Ethnographic Methods" is a basic intro text.
>> € Emerson, Fretz, Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Ch. 5 "Pursuing
>> Members' Meanings."
>> € Sanjek, "Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology."
>> € Ragin, C.'s "What is a Case?" Ch. 1.
>> € Michael Burawoy. Ethnography Unbound, Ch. 1, 2, Appendix.
>> € "Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for
>> Developing Grounded Theory." Anselm Strauss, Juliet M. Corbin.
>> € Appendix of Paul Lichterman's "Elusive Togetherness."
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Alexander Leavitt
>> PhD Student
>> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
>> http://alexleavitt.com
>> Twitter: @alexleavitt
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002 at umn.edu>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> Murphy & Kraidy have a book called Global Media Studies: An
>>> Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge, 2003), which may be useful to
>>> you.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps, Peter
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Nemer <dnemer at indiana.edu> wrote:
>>> > Dear AoIR-ers,
>>> >
>>> > Do you have any recommendations for books on critical ethnography?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > --
>>> > *David Nemer*
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>>> > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
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