Gender, Photography and Visual Participatory Methods: An Ethnographic Research Project between Colombia and France

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Camilo Leon-Quijano
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Research Project

Re-theorising the pre-adolescent child in School Age Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
Bruce Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Care Setting ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
School Age ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Australian School ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Adolescent Child ◽  
Distinct Category ◽  
Insight Into

School Age Care is a setting that is little researched and the research that has been conducted has not often sought the perspectives of older children. This article describes a participatory and ethnographic research project that sought a deeper insight into older children’s experiences of an Australian School Age Care setting, seeking their views about how to successfully program for other children their age. Older children in School Age Care are commonly spoken of as rebellious, bored, disruptive and unsuited to School Age Care. The Foucauldian theories underpinning the research challenged the normative developmental discourses that circulate School Age Care. The research shows that older children have access to these developmental and maturational discourses. The participants actively engaged with language, architecture and resources in the School Age Care setting to actively construct themselves as a more mature, distinct category of child. The findings suggest that School Age Care practitioners should be aware of how developmental discourses are both enacted by children and reinforced through programming design and consider the impacts of segregating routines and practices on children’s play and leisure. While this research does not ‘solve’ the question of older children in School Age Care, it unsettles dominant understandings, therefore inviting practitioners to imagine new programming approaches that might improve School Age Care for older children.

scholarly journals Ethnographic research with young people: methods and rapport

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Tickle
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Youth Research ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper accounts for, and reflects upon, the research design and the methodological approach adopted in ethnographic research with young people. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to reinforce the significance of conducting qualitative participatory and innovative methods with young people, alongside the value of rapport building. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative participatory methods are understood as the most appropriate way to empower and respect young people in the research process. Alongside such methods the ethnographic nature of the research is discussed in conveying the importance of rapport building with young people in the field. In doing so the paper examines a number of important considerations when conducting youth research. Findings The triangulation of qualitative methods was fundamental in exploring and understanding young people’s lives in each locality and allowed for deep and meaningful explorations of specific themes. The additional and complementary methods employed alongside traditional methods were particularly suited to understanding young people’s everyday lives, as complex experiences are not always conveyed through traditional methods alone. Conducting participatory methods produced narratives around safety, security and governance in public places. Originality/value Being reflexive and adapting to a research setting in order to enhance the process of building and maintaining trust with young people is the most important facet when conducting youth research. Giving careful consideration to the impact of a researcher’s presence in the field needs to be carefully navigated.

scholarly journals A Feeling for Systems Development Work: - Design of the ROSA Project

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (246) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Bødker ◽  
Joan Greenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Systems Development ◽  
Work Design ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Working Practices

<p>This article is based on the design of a research project that will look at intuition, learning processes, language and roles in the development of computer systems. The research project, called ROSA (a Danish acronym for Roles and Cooperation in Systems Development) grew out of our interest in the informal working practices among systems developers, because it is these informal working relationships that are most often overlooked in research about computer science methods and tools.</p><p>The project applies a gender perspective to look at the informal work relations of systems developers. The concept of a gender perspective means that we do not intend to look for, or prove, the existence of differences between men and women, but rather to use gender awareness to ''listen to'' and get a ''feeling for'' how systems developers work together. Our research methods are interdisciplinary and based on action-oriented, participatory methods that help system developers reflect on their own working practices.</p>

scholarly journals Reinventing Linguistic Ethnographic Fieldwork During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Noémi Fazakas ◽  
Blanka Barabás
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Virtual Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Research Site ◽  
Linguistic Ethnography ◽  
Non Local

Abstract Our paper discusses the methodological implications of an ethnographic linguistic research project in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Starting from pertinent definitions of linguistic ethnography and interpretations of the field, we offer a demonstration of the process in which this particular participatory research project was faced with the fact that the field became unavailable and inaccessible for the non-local participants. We argue that moving the research online in this case does not mean a shift to “virtual ethnography” (Hine) or “digital ethnography” (Varis), but provides an example for the research site as an emerging construct which adds to the complexities of ethnographic research.

scholarly journals The positioning of English as a key skill in the labour market of Marseille’s Tourist Office

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
ADAM WILSON
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Tourism Professionals ◽  
The City ◽  
Tourist Office

Marseille is reinventing itself as an urban tourist destination. The aim of this paper is to explore the effects that the resulting intensification of international tourism may have on the city, its population and its labour market. Drawing on previous research, language is shown to be a powerful lens through which to explore such phenomena. Therefore, an ethnographic research project was undertaken in Marseille’s Tourist Office, focussing on language use in encounters between international tourists and tourist advisers. The analyses of these data presented here show that English facilitates communication between these parties and thus becomes an indispensable resource for those working at the Tourist Office. It is thus shown how the English language is a key skill in the Tourist Office’s labour market and acts as a discriminatory factor in the recruitment of tourism professionals. In conclusion, some of the potential wider social repercussions are discussed.

scholarly journals Imagining Citizens as More than Data Subjects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Grommé ◽  
Evelyn Ruppert
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives ◽  
Opening Up

The article presents a methodography of a collaborative design workshop conducted with national and international statisticians. The workshop was part of an ethnographic research project on innovation in European official statistics. It aimed to bring academic researchers and statisticians together to collaborate on the design of app prototypes that imagine citizens as co-producers of official statistics rather than only data subjects. However, the objective was not to settle on an end product but to see if relations to citizens could be re-imagined. Through a methodography composed of two ethnographic narratives, we analyse whether and how a collaborative design workshop brought about imaginings of citizens as co-producers. To retrospectively analyse the workshop, we draw on feminist and material-semiotic takes on ‘friction’ as characteristic of collaboration. ‘Friction’, we suggest, can enlarge the repertoire of collaborative speculative practice beyond notions of rupture or consensus. Finally, we suggest that this analysis demonstrates the potential of methodography for opening up and reflecting on method in STS through eliciting the possibilities of collaboration.

A Queer Cyborg Ethnographer in the Performative Friction of Dissenting Ontologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 639-649
Author(s):  
Päivi Jokinen ◽  
Susan Nordstrom
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Final Layer

The reader of this article is invited to join an encounter of methodological experimenting, productive tensions and a way of writing that seeks to challenge conventional human- and language-centered scholarly discourses. This article speculates with the possibility of two dissenting ontologies co-existing simultaneously and making each other visible. Troubling moments of the ontologies rubbing together are elaborated as friction and demonstrated in “queer reiterations” presented throughout the article. The moments of friction orient and reorient the research process. The article draws on Barad’s agential realist onto-epistemology in an interdisciplinary ethnographic research project embedded in psychometric capturing of data. The first part of the article scrutinizes theoretical frictions. The second part, “empirical frictions” takes the reader through encounters with so-called fieldwork and data. The final layer of research writing, “productive frictions” has been inspired by Haraway’s cyborg manifesto to foreground the emergence of the Queer Cyborg Ethnographer.

Would You Like a Map?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Lindy Grief Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Classroom Discussion ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Hospitalized Children ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Digital Map ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Seriously Ill ◽  
A Performance

Parents of seriously ill children struggle to traverse both the physical and emotional spaces of hospitals. Off the Map, a performance born out of an ethnographic research project and personal experience, employs a digital map to explore the institutional guidance offered to parents of hospitalized children. In this article, the script from Off the Map is integrated with text from a classroom discussion about the performance, ethnographic interviews with parents of seriously ill children, and a theoretically-grounded discussion of cartography as a performance metaphor. Implications for practice include a call for parents and practitioners to consider multiple ways of mapping healthcare spaces and experiences.

What’s So Funny ’bout PECE, TAF, and Data Sharing?

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Mike Fortun ◽  
Lindsay Poirier ◽  
Alli Morgan ◽  
Brian Callahan ◽  
Kim Fortun
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Global Collaboration ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Collaborative Ethnography

This chapter points out different ways involvement with collaborative projects share form, shape, or style, and may be imagined as nested within each other, like matryoshka dolls. It deals with the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), the digital infrastructure that support new collaborative projects in anthropology. It also cites the long-standing collaboration of The Asthma Files (TAF), which is an experimental ethnographic research project that eventually led to the conceptualization and development of PECE. The chapter mentions the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group (DPHE-IG) that was organized within the Research Data Alliance (RDA), a global collaboration of individuals and institutions working to make data more easily and openly shareable. It emphasizes how the collaborative form is the experimental form analyzed by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger as essential to a modern scientific style.

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