This collection brings together readings from the vast range of ethnographic perspectives and practices to offer a multi-dimensional, detailed exploration of the ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ of ethnographic research, with a major emphasis on the contemporary application of the same. This is undertaken with the objective of offering a single, comprehensive teaching and research resource for those interested in this approach to data collection and analysis. The collection comprises four volumes that will collectively: i) consider what constitutes ‘contemporary ethnography’ as a research tool; ii) critically discuss the definitional debates surrounding ethnography; iii) illustrate how ethnography can be used in contemporary social science research where a significant emphasis is placed on the everyday, the virtual and the visual; and finally iv) reflect upon the practical, methodological, analytical and ethical aspects of current ethnographic research practice.
Contents: Volume 1: Contemporary Ethnographies: Transformation, Change and Continuities: 1. The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present/Norbert Elias. 2. The Ethnographic Choice: Why Ethnographers Do Ethnography/Keith Berry. 3. Theory and Contrastive Explanation in Ethnography/Paul Lichterman and Isaac. 4. Ariail Reed The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life/Charles Soukup.5. Old Fieldwork, New Ethnography: Taking the Stories Out of the Bag/Anne-Marie Smith. 6. Ethnography by Design: On Goals and Mediating Artefacts/Fabian Segelström and Stefan Holmlid. 7. Street Corner Society Revisted: New Questions about Old Issues/Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler and John M. Johnson. 8. Going Back to Re-study Communities: Challenges and Opportunities/Graham Crow. 9. The Muncie Race Riots of 1967, Representing Community Memory Through Public Performance, and Collaborative Ethnography between Faculty, Students, and the Local Community/Lee Papa and Luke Eric Lassiter. 10. The Sound of Street Corner Society: UK Grime Music as Ethnography/Lee Barron. 11. The Corner and the Crew: The Influence of Geography and Social Networks on Gang Violence/Andrew V. Papachristos, David M. Hureau and Anthony A. Braga. 12. Narratives in the Old Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Neighborhood’s Stories/Robin Patric Clair. 13. Pearl Jephcott: The Legacy of a Forgotten Sociological Research Pioneer/John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor. 14. They Treat Me Like I’m Scum’: Social Exclusion and Established-Outsider Relations in a British Tennis Club/Robert J. Lake. 15. Common Culture, Commodity Fetishism and the Cultural Contradictions of Sport/Marcus Free and John Hughson. 16. For Institutional Ethnography: Geographical Approaches to Institutions and the Everyday/Emily Billo and Alison Mountz. 17. Rendering Invisible Punishments Visible: Using Institutional Ethnography in Feminist Criminology/Megan Welsh and Valli Rajah. 18. Intersecting Feminist Theory and Ethnography in the Context of Social Work Research/Julia Archer. 19. Village Ethnography and Kinship Studies: Perspectives from India and Beyond/Ester Gallo.20. Applications of Performance Ethnography in Nursing/Carol A.M. Smith and Agatha M. Gallo. 21. Music on the Edge: Busking at the Cliffs of Moher and the Commodification of a Musical Landscape/Adam Kaul.
Vol. 2: Current Ethnographic Practices: Working in the ‘Contemporary Field’: 1. Getting It on Record: Issues and Strategies for Ethnographic Practice in Recording Studios/Paul Thompson and Brett Lashua. 2. Looking at and Looking Back: Visualization in Mobile Research/Lesley Murray.3. Regimes of Meaning: The Intersection of Space and Time in Kitchen Cultures/Daphne Demetry. 4. Strategies for Obtaining Access to Secretive or Guarded Organizations/Torin Monahan and Jill A. Fisher. 5. Stuck Inside of Mobile: Ethnography in Non-Places/Simon Gottschalk and Marko Salvaggio.6. Being Embedded: A Way Forward for Ethnographic Research/S.J. Lewis and A.J. Russell. 7. Close But Not Too Close: Friendship as Method(ology) in Ethnographic Research Encounters/Helen Owton and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson. 8. Street Social Capital in the Liquid City/Jonathan Ilan. 9. The Emotionality of Participation: Various Modes of Participation in Ethnographic Fieldwork on Private Policing in Durban, South Africa/Tessa Diphoorn. 10. Uncovering the Essence: The Why and How of Supplementing Observation with Participation in Phenomenology-based Ethnography/Michaela Pfadenhauer and Tilo Grenz. 11. Working between Two Worlds: Gang Intervention and Street Liminality/Patrick Lopez-Aguado. 12. Institutional Ethnography, Autoethnography, and Narrative: An Argument for Incorporating Multiple Methodologies/Nancy Taber. 13. Indigenous Autoethnography: Exploring, Engaging, and Experiencing “Self” as a Native Method of Inquiry/Paul Whitinui. 14. Shining Stars, Blind Sides, and “Real” Realities: Exit Rituals, Eulogy Work, and Allegories in Reality Television/Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Clare Forstie and Savina Balasubramanian. 15. Solid Intentions: An Archival Ethnography of Corporate Architecture and Organizational Remembering/Stephanie Decker. 16. Walking Histories, Un/making Places: Walking Tours as Ethnography of Place/Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu. 17. Video and Vision: Videography of a Marian Apparition/Hubert Knoblauch and Bernt Schnettler. 18. Waving The Banana’at Capitalism: Political Theater And Social Movement Strategy Among New York’s ‘Freegan’ Dumpster Divers/Alex V. Barnard. 19. Between the Personal and the Professional: Ethical Challenges When Using Visual Ethnography to Understand Young People’s Use of Popular Visual Material Culture/Kristen Ali Eglinton. 20. Frontline Collaborations: The Research Relationship in Unstable Places/Danny Hoffman and Mohammed Tarawalley, Jr.
Volume 3: Digital Ethnography: Researching Online Worlds: 1. The Virtual Objects of Ethnography/Christine Hine. 2. Netnography Redefined/R. Kozinets. 3. Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research/Dhiraj Murthy. 4. Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice/Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T. 5. Ethnography Goes Online: Towards a User-centred Methodology to Research Interpersonal Communication on the Internet/Roser Beneito-Montagut. 6. Faraway, So Close! Proximity and Distance in Ethnography Online/Stina Bengtsson. 7. The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds: An Ethnography of a Second Life Community/Shaowen Bardzell and William Odom. 8. Facebook and FarmVille: A Digital Ritual Analysis of Social Gaming/Benjamin Burroughs. 9. Knowing and Throwing Mudballs, Hearts, Pies, and Flowers: A Connective Ethnography of Gaming Practices/Deborah A. Fields and Yasmin B. Kafai. 10. Message Received: Virtual Ethnography in Online Message Boards/Kevin F. Steinmetz. 11. The Ethnography of New Media Worlds? Following the Case of Global Poker/John Farnsworth and Terry Austrin. 12. Social Media Ethnography: The Digital Researcher in a Messy Web/John Postill and Sarah Pink. 13. Internet Memes as Contested Cultural Capital: The Case of 4chan’s /b/ Board/Asaf Nissenbaum and Limor Shifman. 14. Active Engagement with Stigmatised Communities through Digital Ethnography/Monica J. Barratt and Alexia Maddox. 15. Power/Freedom on the Dark Web: A Digital Ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network/Robert W. Gehl. 16. Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online/Natalie Boero and C.J. Pascoe.17. The Digital Street: An Ethnographic Study of Networked Street Life in Harlem/Jeffrey Lane. 18. Tactile Digital Ethnography: Researching Mobile Media through the Hand/Sarah Pink, Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa Hjorth. 19. Complementary Social Science? Quali-Quantitative Experiments in a Big Data World/Anders Blok and Morten Axel Pedersen.20. Literacy and Training in Digital Research: Researchers’ Views in Five Social Science and Humanities Disciplines/Panayiota Tsatsou.
Volume 4: Contemporary Ethnographic Analysis: Interpretation, Meaning and Representation: 1. Ethnography, Theory, and Sociology as a Human Science: An Interlocution/Isaac Ariail Reed.2. The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research/William Julius Wilson and Anmol Chaddha. 3. Uncovering the Essence: The Why and How of Supplementing Observation with Participation in Phenomenology-Based Ethnography/Michaela Pfadenhauer and Tilo Grenz. 4. Life-World-Analytical Ethnography: A Phenomenology-Based Research Approach/Anne Honer and Ronald Hitzler. 5. How Many Cases Do I Need?’ On Science and the Logic of Case Selection in Field-based Research/Mario Luis Small. 6. Representing Shop Work: A Dual Ethnography/Lynne Pettinger. 7. Ethnography of the Ek-Static Experience: Poésie Auto- socioanalytique in the Work of Michel Leiris/Alexander Riley. 8. Exploring Another’s Subjective Life-World: A Phenomenological Approach/Thomas S. Eberle. 9. The Ethnographic Machine: Experimenting with Context and Comparison in Strathernian Ethnography/Atsuro Morita. 10. The Ethnography of ‘Particularly Sensitive’ Activities: How ‘Social Expectations of Ethnography’ may Reduce Sociological and Anthropological Scope/Anne Paillet. 11. The Feminist Ethnographer’s Dilemma: Reconciling Progressive Research Agendas with Fieldwork Realities/Orit Avishai, Lynne Gerber, and Jennifer Randles. 12. The Politics of Identity and Methodology in African Development Ethnography/Esayas B Geleta. 13. Indigenous Autoethnography: Exploring, Engaging, and Experiencing “Self” as a Native Method of Inquiry/Paul Whitinui. 14. Non-representational Ethnography: New Ways of Animating Lifeworlds/Phillip Vannini. 15. The Seven Up! Films: Connecting the Personal and the Sociological/Barrie Thorne. 16. Street Phenomenology: The Go-along as Ethnographic Research Tool/Margarethe Kusenbach. 17. Marking Time in Ethnography: Uncovering Temporal Dispositions/Sinikka Elliott, Josephine Ngo McKelvy and Sarah Bowen. 18. Multi-scalar Ethnography: An Approach for Critical Engagement with Migration and Social Change/Biao Xiang. 19. Locating the Global in Transnational Ethnography/Takeyuki Tsuda, Maria Tapias, and Xavier Escandell. 20. A Different Kind of Ethics/Jason Ferdinand, Geoff Pearson, Mike Rowe and Frank Worthington.
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