Overview
- A uniquely honest and penetrating analysis of collaborative fieldwork in ethnography
- Analyses both the personal and professional aspects
- Provides detailed insights into the practice of observation, taking field notes, analysis and creating a contemporaneous written record
- Includes visual representations of the dynamics of the ethnographic research process
- Offers a fresh understanding of asymmetrical relationships in ethnography research that combines empirical detail with methodological analysis
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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This uniquely in-depth book offers a blow-by-blow account of the sometimes problematic dynamics of conducting collaborative fieldwork in ethnography. Tracing the interplay between co-researchers at various points of contact in both professional and personal relations, the analysis draws out the asymmetries which can develop among team members nominally working towards the same ends. It details the often complex dialogues that evolve in an attempt to navigate conflicting interests, such as team members’ resistances to particular methodological ‘recipes’ or research protocols. The authors show that such debates can create an open forum to negotiate new practices.
A key element of this publication is that it goes beyond an analysis of more traditional power relations in research teams comprising members at different academic pay grades. As well as drawing attention to gender-related dynamics in research collaborations, the authors use themselves as an exemplar to demonstrate how differences in age, experience, knowledge, professional skills and background can be exploited to generate positive outcomes constituting much more than the apparent sum of their parts. In doing so, the authors reveal the delightful, surprising and yet challenging aspects of research collaboration that are often absent from the qualitative literature.
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Book Title: Doing Ethnography in Teams
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of Asymmetries in Collaborative Research
Authors: Teena Clerke, Nick Hopwood
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05618-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05617-3Published: 29 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05618-0Published: 15 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 96
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Anthropology