D. Soyini Madison (USA Northwestern University)

Critical Ethnography

Method, Ethics, and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a fresh new look at critical ethnography by emphasizing the significance of ethics and performance in the art and politics of fieldwork, this book celebrates the productive links between theory and method.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781483356778
• ISBN-10: 1483356779
• Artikelnr.: 48385320

Autorenporträt

D. Soyini Madison is professor of Performance Studies and Anthropology, and served as Interim Director of the Program in African Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance (2010, Cambridge UP) and the co-editor with Judith Hamera of the SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies (2006, SAGE). Madison lived in West Africa as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and has conducted field research over the past ten years on the performance tactics of local human rights activists in Ghana.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1
Introduction to Critical Ethnography: Theory and Method Defining Terms: What Is the Critical in Critical Ethnography? Dialogue: Virtues and Challenges The Method and Theory Nexus Key Terms Warm-Ups Chapter 2
Methods: "Do I Really Need a Method?" A Method . . . or Deep Hanging Out? "Who Am I?" Starting Where You Are "Who Else Has Written About My Topic?" Being a Part of an Interpretive Community The Power of Purpose: Bracketing Your Subject Preparing for the Field: The Research Design and Lay Summary The Interview Formulating Questions Questions to Get Started: Experience, Opinions, Feelings, and the Senses Creativity, Questions, and Three Favorites Memory and the Oral History Interview Rapport: How and What Is This Between Us? Coding and Logging Data A Biomimetics of Ethnography Warm-Ups Chapter 3
Three Stories: Case Studies in Critical Ethnography Case 1: Local Activism in West Africa Case 2: Secrets, Sexuality, and Oral History Case 3: Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization Warm-Ups Chapter 4
Ethics Ethics Is . . . Ethics, Faith, and Environmental Activism The Question of Freedom Maria Lugones: Contemporary Ethics, Ethnography, and Loving Perception Summary Warm-Ups Chapter 5
Methods and Application: Three Case Studies in Ethical Dilemmas Case 1: Local Activism in West Africa Case 2: Secrets, Sexuality, and Oral History Case 3: Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization Warm-Ups Chapter 6
Performance and Performed Ethnography Foundational Concepts in Performance and Social Theory Utopian Performatives The Performance Interventions of Dwight Conquergood Staging Ethnography as Performed Ethnography Autoethnography and/or Reflexive Ethnography Autoethnography in Performance as Critical Reflections Warm-Ups Chapter 7
It's Time to Write: Writing as Performance Getting Started: In Search of the Muse The Anxiety of Writing: Wild Mind and Monkey Mind Writing as Performance and Performance as Writing Warm-Ups Chapter 8
The Case Studies Case 1: Staging Cultural Performance Case 2: Oral History and Performance Case 3: Fieldwork and Social Drama Warm-Ups References Index About the Author