Qualitative methods II: On the presentation of ‘geographical ethnography’

Hitchings, Russell; Latham, Alan

doi:10.1177/0309132519879986

Cited by 42 publications

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“…If geographers are to consider the relations between embodiment and VR interfaces, methodological approaches need to consider further the ties between bodily, visceral and affective interactions and how VR spaces are encountered (see Sexton et al., 2017). Arguably, this also requires an ethnographic sensibility which identifies how place, whether this is the domestic setting, the museum, or the workplace, is shaped by and shapes encounters with VR experiences and practices (see Bos, 2018; Hitchings & Latham 2019; Pink 2015). Where VR operates can unveil rich insights into the wider socio‐technical ecology and the relations which contextualize that experience.…”

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confidence: 99%

Geography and virtual reality

Bos

2021

Geography Compass

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Whilst virtual reality (VR) has a long history, recent technological advancements, increased accessibility and affordability have seen its usage become widespread within western consumer society. Despite the relevance of VR to Geography, these more recent developments have escaped scholarly attention. This paper takes a critical perspective on the development of VR and its varied applications, and how emerging theoretical debates within cultural and digital geography can critically attend to the social and cultural implications of VR technologies. The paper begins by considering how VR spaces are imagined and communicated to publics in ways that promote popular understandings of, and desires for, virtual spaces. Next, the paper critically addresses the cultural politics of VR content, particularly drawing attention to the socio-spatial differences evoked through VR. The paper goes on to argue for the need to consider VR through the concept of interface as a way of critically attending to the broader techno-socio relations and the embodied spatial encounters they produce. Finally, some methodological implications for thinking with and through VR are outlined.

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Geography and virtual reality

Bos

2021

Geography Compass

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“…While anthropologists may have developed ethnography into a scholarly form of art, various other fields have incorporated ethnographic elements into their work. For instance, in geography Hitchings and Latham ( 2019 ) observe that authors deploying the concept “ethnographic” tend to communicate that their research strives to place the respondents’ interviews amidst their lived social action. A key concept in ethnography is the idea of “the field.” In ethnography, fieldwork implies a researcher staying for an extended period in a place, engaged in interaction with research participants “on their home ground” (Van Maanen 2011 , p. 2).…”

Section: Spatiality and Temporality In Qualitative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data, Disasters, and Space-Time Entanglements

Meriläinen

Koro‐Ljungberg

2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Disasters connected to natural hazards can at the same time be unfolding events, as well as structural phenomena with unequal disaster risk constructed over an extended timespan. Hence, in disaster studies, temporality and spatiality are central, yet often implicit, concepts employed to make sense of the disaster phenomena. In this article we explicitly focus on temporality and spatiality within qualitative disaster studies, particularly those containing ethnographic elements. We use Doreen Massey’s idea of space-time trajectories to analyze and illustrate how in qualitative disaster studies the trajectories of the disaster, research participants, and the researcher entangle in diverse ways. The focus is on how temporality and spatiality are present in the construction of data. The article is mainly conceptual, with illustrations drawn from empirical fieldwork on Valparaíso fire of 2014 in Chile. We interrogate how researchers’ sensitivity to temporality and spatiality challenges the conventional notions and practices of “data” in qualitative disaster studies. The focus in this article is on disaster studies, but it also offers methodological insights to other social sciences that strive to conduct research in the era of “Anthropocene,” with all its shifts and changes, the root causes of which have built over a long time.

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“…The ideas presented in this editorial come from an on‐going conversation with Russell Hitchings. A more in‐depth exploration of some of the key themes discussed here can be found a series of progress reports on qualitative methods recently published in Progress in Human Geography (Hitchings and Latham, 2020a; 2020b; 2020c).…”

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“…Reading through the most highly cited journals it would seem that human geographers think through theory rather than method. Questions about precisely how interviews were carried out and analysed, for example, or what was involved in an ethnography are frequently black boxed – treated as self‐evident, not worthy of detailed explanation (Hitchings and Latham, 2020a; 2020b; 2020c).…”

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