Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance

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In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level. In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explores a series of tensions and differences in the conceptualisation and conduct of ethnography, among them: Surrender and Catch; Strangeness and Familiarity; Intimacy and Distance; amd Romanticism and Modernism. It emphasises disruptions and interruptions rather than an idealised model of smoothly untroubled research. The book covers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, illustrated with research in many social settings. The book is intended for researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels and at experienced researchers who want to read a different, sometimes challenging, take on ethnographic research and its outcomes. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS Preface and acknowledgements 1. Commitments and the field 2. Ethnography in tension 3. Ethnography’s desire 4. Interrupted lives and ethnographic moments 5. Ethnography incarnate 6. Failed modernism? Writing and the grain of everyday life 7. The catch and the collector 8. Epilogue Bibliography Index