Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods

ISBN-13: 9780415965248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 228 str.

Simon Coleman

Opis

Examines the problems and possibilities multi-sited approaches have presented to researchers as well as the ways in which the concept has evolved since the mid-1990s. In this book, the contributors raise new questions, new approaches and new possibilities. It is suitable for scholars in a variety of disciplines across the social sciences.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Queries, Collaborations, Calibrations  Simon Coleman and Pauline von Hellermann  2. Multi-Sited Ethnography: Five or Six Things I Know About It Now  George E. Marcus  Section A: Spatialities of the Field  Section A Introduction  Michael Crang  3. Researching Lives in Motion: Multi-sited Strategies in a Transnational Context  Kanwal Mand  4. The Unwelcome Ethnographer, or What ‘Our’ People (May) Think of Multi-sited Research  Ester Gallo  5. Exploring Senegalese Trans-local Spaces: Reflections on Multi-Sited Research  Bruno Riccio  Section B: Challenging Conventions? Multi-Sited Ethnographies of Institutions and Processes  Section B Inroduction  Andrea Cornwall  6. ‘What do You Call the Heathen These Days?’: For and Against Renewal in the Norwegian Mission Society  Ingie Hovland  7. From Boardrooms to Mineshafts: In Pursuit of Global Corporate Citizenship  Dinah Rajak  8. Understanding HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Sites and Positions  Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte and Jenipher Twebaze  Section C: Multiple Pathways and the Price of Liberation  Section C Introduction  James Fairhead  9. Migratory Birds, Migratory Scientists, and Shifting Fields: The Political Ecology of a Northern Coastline  Werner Krauss  10. The Anxieties of Engaging in Multi-Sited PhD Research: Reflections on Researching Indigenous Rights Processes in Venezuela  Kathryn Tomlinson  11. Teaching with George Marcus (and Learning from Michael Fischer): Pedagogy as Multi-Sited Ethnography  Kaushik Sunder Rajan  12. Novelty and Method: Reflections on Global Fieldwork  James Ferguson

O autorze

Simon Coleman is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

Pauline von Hellermann is a Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Sussex.