Ethnography as Collective Research Endeavor

Clerke, Teena; Hopwood, Nick

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05618-0_2

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“…While this asymmetry within the team undoubtedly expanded and enhanced our understanding of our data, it nevertheless rarely led to direct conflict and dissonance said to bring valuable analytic power (when consensus is hard won) (Clerk and Hopwood, 2014). Our experience was characterised more frequently by a polite stalemate and a tentativeness and unwillingness to be decisive and critical of the ideas of others resulting in an expanse of interpretations that needed to be carefully honed.…”

Section: (Fieldwork Area 5-interview-partnership Member-4)mentioning

confidence: 88%

Capturing complexity in the evaluation of a major area-based initiative in community empowerment: what can a multi-site, multi team, ethnographic approach offer?

Orton

Ponsford

Egan

et al. 2019

Anthropology & Medicine

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In recent years there has been growing emphasis on the need to develop ways of capturing 'complexity' in the evaluation of health initiatives in order to produce better evidence about 'how' and under what conditions such interventions work. Used alone, conventional methods of evaluation, that attempt to reduce phenomena intervention processes and outcomes to a small number of discrete and finite variables, are typically not well suited to this task. Among the research Therecommunity there have been increasing calls among the research community to take more seriously qualitative methods as an alternative or complementary approach toin the evaluation of health initiativesintervention evaluation. Ethnography has been identified as being particularly well suited to the purpose of capturing the full messiness that ensues when health interventions are introduced into compexcomplex settings (or systems). In this paper we draw reflect on our experience of taking a long term multi-site, multi team, ethnographic approach to captureing complex, dynamic system processes in the first phase of an evaluation of a major area-based community empowerment initiative being rolled out in 150 neighbourhoods in England. Through reflection on the practice of conducting multi-site, multi-team ethnography in the first phase of this evaluation, Wwe consider the utility of our approach for capturing the complexity inherent to understanding the changes that ensue when the initiative is delivered into multiple diverse contexts/systems as well as the opportunities and challenges that emerge in the research process.

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Section: (Fieldwork Area 5-interview-partnership Member-4)mentioning

confidence: 88%

Capturing complexity in the evaluation of a major area-based initiative in community empowerment: what can a multi-site, multi team, ethnographic approach offer?

Orton

Ponsford

Egan

et al. 2019

Anthropology & Medicine

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“…In multi‐person research, researchers are able to cover a greater area in their fieldwork and to collect rich empirical material. To avoid protectionism, the researchers shared their materials during and after the fieldwork, including interview transcripts and field notes, keeping them in joint storage and sharing their initial impressions of the fieldwork (Clerke & Hopwood, 2014; Erickson & Stull, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

Gendering the digitalized metal industry

Johansson

Morell

Lindell

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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With an empirical investigation of the Swedish metal industry, this study explores the gendering of metalwork in the context of digitalization. Adopting Butler's notions of gender performativity, and taking a broad feminist perspective, our analysis renders the following findings: first, inequality in the workplace between normative masculine and feminine characteristics is still present in the metal industry. The dominant exploitative expectations of masculine physical strength are gradually being replaced by the persistent masculine association with technology. Both men and women contribute to the confirmation and strengthening of this new masculine attribute. Second, women, through the construction of their sense of self as competent digital steelworkers, take on a vital role in re-formulating the gender script of the digitalized metal industry. By enacting stereotypical feminine aesthetic gestures, using 'housewifely' metaphors parodying masculine discourses, and through deliberately connecting feminine attributes with competences and strengths in technology, female operators subvert the ideal image of a metalworker and disrupt the persistent myth of femininity as being incompatible with technology.

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“…Traditionally, ethnography has been a relatively lonely research practice, in the sense that ethnographers have worked and written alone (Clerke and Hopwood 2014). In this volume, many texts are based on the collaboration of research teams and other academic collectives and involve reflections on the process of methodological experiments of co-creating knowledge.…”

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Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research

Lähdesmäki¹,

Koskinen-Koivisto²,

Čeginskas³

et al. 2020

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Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research: Ethnography with a Twist seeks to rethink ethnography 'outside the box' of its previous tradition and to develop ethnographic methods by critically discussing process, ethics, impact and knowledge production in ethnographic research. This interdisciplinary edited volume argues for a 'twist' that supports openness, courage, and creativity to develop and test innovative and unconventional ways of thinking and doing ethnography. 'Ethnography with a twist' means both an intentional aim to conduct ethnographic research with novel approaches and methods but also sensitivity to recognize and creativity to utilize different kinds of 'twist moments' that ethnographic research may create for the researcher. This edited volume critically evaluates new and old methodological tools and their ability to engage with questions of power difference. It proposes new collaborative methods that allow for co-production and co-creation of research material as well as shared conceptual work and wider distribution of knowledge. The book will be of use to ethnographers in humanities and social science disciplines including sociology, anthropology and communication studies.

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Ethnography as Collective Research Endeavor

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Capturing complexity in the evaluation of a major area-based initiative in community empowerment: what can a multi-site, multi team, ethnographic approach offer?

Capturing complexity in the evaluation of a major area-based initiative in community empowerment: what can a multi-site, multi team, ethnographic approach offer?

Gendering the digitalized metal industry

Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research

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