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Ethnographic worldviews : transformations and social justice / [edited by] Robert E. Rinehart, Karen N. Barbour and Clive C. Pope.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Springer, 2014.Description: xiv, 259 p. ; illISBN:
  • 9789400769151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 R579 305.8
Contents:
1. Proem: Engaging contemporary ethnography across the disciplines -- Part I. Social Justice and Transformation: Theorical Ethnographic Visions 2. Social justice, transformation and indigenous methodologies -- 3. Amazwi abesifazane and mapula: Alternative spaces of narrative, disclosure and empowerment in post-apartheid South Africa -- 4. Advanced marginalization and re-criminalization of undocumented workser in the U.S. -- 5. Finding a space for English: A case study of how a Māori-medium school negotiates the teaching of Māori and English -- 6. Negotiating safe and unsafe space: Participation, discomfort and response-ability in higher education institute transformation in South Africa -- Part II. Practice and Advocacy: Doing Ethnography on the Ground 7. Living and learning together: Principled practice for engagement and social transformation in the East Kimberley Region of Western Australia -- 8. The journey to a good life: Exploring personal and organisational transformation through digital storytelling -- 9. Toi tu te whenua, toi tu te tangata: A holistic Māori approach to flood management -- 10. One woman, one too many -- 11. Co-creating visual theories of change with treaty and decolonisation activists -- Part III. Emerging Methods: Traditional, Experimental, Transgressive Forms 12. Sustaining fish-human communities? A more-than-human question -- 13. Acts of representation: A labour of love -- 14. Battered in the media: The value of theorizing as a method for lessening the pain of lived experience -- 15. The 'insider's view' in media studies: A case study of the performance ethnography of mobile media -- 16. Erica's story: A poetic representation of loss and struggle -- Part IV. Afterword 17. A critical performance pedagogy that matters-- Index.
Summary: This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understands many of the current issues and concerns-with specific exemplars from around the globe-for ethnographers. 'Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice' will have its "finger on the pulse" of contemporary ethnography. Chapters demonstrate up-to-the-moment awareness of ethnographic methods, concerns, and subject matters within contemporary ethnographic writing. Authors are deeply engaged in both their subject matter and their method. Unlike other ethnographic books which often suggest "giving voice to others", this book will actually give voice to a wide variety of perspectives, from the points of view of researchers.
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Includes index.

1. Proem: Engaging contemporary ethnography across the disciplines --
Part I. Social Justice and Transformation: Theorical Ethnographic Visions
2. Social justice, transformation and indigenous methodologies --
3. Amazwi abesifazane and mapula: Alternative spaces of narrative, disclosure and empowerment in post-apartheid South Africa --
4. Advanced marginalization and re-criminalization of undocumented workser in the U.S. --
5. Finding a space for English: A case study of how a Māori-medium school negotiates the teaching of Māori and English --
6. Negotiating safe and unsafe space: Participation, discomfort and response-ability in higher education institute transformation in South Africa --

Part II. Practice and Advocacy: Doing Ethnography on the Ground
7. Living and learning together: Principled practice for engagement and social transformation in the East Kimberley Region of Western Australia --
8. The journey to a good life: Exploring personal and organisational transformation through digital storytelling --
9. Toi tu te whenua, toi tu te tangata: A holistic Māori approach to flood management --
10. One woman, one too many --
11. Co-creating visual theories of change with treaty and decolonisation activists --

Part III. Emerging Methods: Traditional, Experimental, Transgressive Forms
12. Sustaining fish-human communities? A more-than-human question --
13. Acts of representation: A labour of love --
14. Battered in the media: The value of theorizing as a method for lessening the pain of lived experience --
15. The 'insider's view' in media studies: A case study of the performance ethnography of mobile media --
16. Erica's story: A poetic representation of loss and struggle --

Part IV. Afterword
17. A critical performance pedagogy that matters--

Index.

This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understands many of the current issues and concerns-with specific exemplars from around the globe-for ethnographers. 'Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice' will have its "finger on the pulse" of contemporary ethnography. Chapters demonstrate up-to-the-moment awareness of ethnographic methods, concerns, and subject matters within contemporary ethnographic writing. Authors are deeply engaged in both their subject matter and their method. Unlike other ethnographic books which often suggest "giving voice to others", this book will actually give voice to a wide variety of perspectives, from the points of view of researchers.

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