Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research: Tensions and Positionings

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The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced, positionalities of authors, tensions between authors and others, multi-faceted groups, and as co-productions of these works. The contributors describe and discuss a variety of topical areas of interest, from Facebook to memory work, from children's sexuality to urban racism, from meanings of Indigenous knowledge to how communities can come together to retain what is valuable to themselves. The authors also manage to locate themselves and others (positionings) in the research hierarchies (tensions). This is a valuable guide to the effects of 21st-century ethnography on the qualitative research project. Cover Title Copyright Contents 1 Proem: Archipelagoes of Pan Pacific Ethnographies PART I Emerging Methods 2 Ethnographic Writing in the Age of Facebook 3 Performing SHOT!: Personalizing North Philly, Poverty, and Performance Poetry 4 Activist Ethnography: Becoming the "Toilet Lady," Navigating Roles in the Field 5 Autoperformance Ethnography as an Act of Movement from Trauma and Loss to Memory and Redress in Chilean Victims of the Pinochet Regime PART II Practice and Advocacy 6 Indigenous Research: Practice and Advocacy 7 Cultural Consideration and Mixed Methods for Psychological Research: A Sri Lankan Perspective 8 Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in New South Wales, Australia: Ethical and Methodological Positioning 9 Whanaungatanga Is Not an Option: An Autoethnography in Two Voices PART III Social Justice 10 White Lines: Racist Graffiti, Skinhead Youth and Violence in the English Suburbs 11 Accompanied by Suspicion: An Ethnographic Account of Negotiating Gender Tensions and Positioning in Counselling Practice and Researching Child Sexuality 12 Stories That Challenge Dominant Discourses 13 Performing Humour and Irony in Forming Ethical Subjectivities: The Cases of Ultimate Frisbee and Contemporary Academia PART IV Indigenous Ethnographies 14 Ko Te Tangata Whai I Te Mātauranga Ka Whai I Te Māramatanga: The Journey of Knowledge is a Journey of Enlightenment—Indigenous Methodologies 15 Mātauranga Māori and the "Creative Potential" of Māori Communities 16 Hoatu Ki Te Riri Tū Ngutu!/Go Forth into Battle! 17 Te Wawao I Te Mätauranga Māori: Indigenous Knowledge in a Digital Age—Issues and Ethics of Knowledge Management and Knowledge Exchange in Aotearoa/New Zealand 18 Te Pā Harakeke: Whānau as a Site of Wellbeing PART V Panel Presentation 19 Postscript: Maintaining Balance in Research Climates for Indigenous Academics Contributors Subject Index Author Index