Studying Negotiations in Context: An Ethnographic Approach

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Way

AbstractEthnographic research offers an alternative approach which can provide insights into the types of complex situations that negotiators really face. This approach is not easy – it can be more time consuming, costly, and difficult than other research methods – but the payoff comes from the way these in-depth studies challenge scholars to develop new ideas and theories, based on what really happens in negotiations rather than on the logical next step in a series of experiments.

scholarly journals Dog Bites and Gastrointestinal Disorders: Our Everyday Bodies in Teaching Anthropology and Fieldwork Preparation

Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Miranda Sheild Johansson ◽  
Laura Montesi
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gastrointestinal Disorders ◽  
Dog Bites ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Being There ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

What are the physical experiences of fieldwork really like? This article invites anthropologists engaged in teaching to transform the way research methods are currently taught to include frank and thoughtful conversations on how bodies, in their mundane physicality, are implicated in fieldwork. While the (mindful) body that actively and purposefully engages with the reality under investigation has gained centrality in anthropological discussions about “being there”, the body that things happen to has been ignored or marginalised. We contend that an exploration of the body that falls ill, feels uncomfortable, or simply does not match with an idealised image of the skilled and productive fieldworker (often male and able-bodied) has practical, pedagogical, political, and analytical merits. By recounting some of our own private anecdotes of challenges encountered in fieldwork, we emphasise the centrality of our physical experiences to our ethnographic approach. Discussing the glamourless, bodily aspects of fieldwork is crucial to preparing ourselves and our students for fieldwork, to combating ableism in anthropology, and to downplaying anxiety over narrow standard goals of “good” fieldwork. We also argue that theoretical considerations of the messy and unpleasant physical experiences that fieldwork involves can bring further insight into how research is (un)done.

Going North, coming South: Guatemalan migratory flows

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-164
Author(s):  
Michelle J. Moran-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
New Ideas

Understanding the return aspect of international migration is vital because returnees replete with new ideas, perceptions on life, and monies affect every dimension of social life in migrants’ places of origin.  Yet, return migration remains uneven and an understudied aspect of migratory flows because migration scholars have privileged why individuals migrate, the underlying motivations for their moves abroad, and how migrants assimilate and succeed in their destinations abroad. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article addresses the migratory flows of Ladino and Mayan Guatemalans:  those who go North, but in particular, those who come South. And in doing so, it highlights their similar and divergent responses towards migration processes.

What is Ethnography? Teaching ethnographic sensibilities without fieldwork

Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole McGranahan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Learn By Doing ◽  
Do So

How do we teach undergraduate students to think ethnographically, to recognize something as ethnographic and not just as qualitative? Importantly, how do we do so not in the field, where students might learn by doing their own research, but in the static classroom? One approach is to have students cultivate a concept, awareness, and practice of an ethnographic sensibility, that is, of a sense of the ethnographic as the lived expectations, complexities, contradictions, possibilities, and ground of any given cultural group. Such a view opens up an understanding of ethnography and ethnographic research as more than available qualitative methods. Instead, it takes an ethnographic approach to be an epistemological one. Yet, how might we do this? In this article, I discuss my pedagogical strategies for teaching students an ethnographic sensibility without having them conduct fieldwork. I argue that it is both possible and valuable to generate an ethnographic sensibility in the classroom. 

The (im)materiality of literacy in early childhood: A socio-material approach to online and offline events

2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2098385
Author(s):  
Alejandra Pacheco-Costa ◽  
Fernando Guzmán-Simón
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Way

Among the recent approaches to literacy incorporated into Literacy Studies, the concept of (im)materiality has enabled researchers to delve into the fluid and hybrid nature of contemporary literacy practices in early childhood. Our research explores the (im)materiality of literacy practices from the perspectives of space, screen mediation, artefacts and embodiment. The research focuses on the (im)material nature of the literacy practices carried out in different spaces, and its relevance in the making of meaning by children. The research method is based on an ethnographic approach. The results show the children’s embodiment of their literacy practices, and the way in which they create and interact with space and make meaning from their (im)material practices. These practices raise questions about their inclusion in current literacy development in schools.

scholarly journals Research as Improvisation: Dancing among Perspectives

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenda-mae Greene ◽  
Shirley Freed
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Way ◽  
Dissertation Chair

This article captures the way research methods were intertwined with core identities to understand the success development of Caribbean-Canadian women. It highlights the importance of researchers experimenting with a blend of perspectives to fit their problem as well as their identity. Viewing the research process through the eyes of the researcher and her dissertation chair, issues of validity and collaboration emerge. Ultimately both authors listen to family voices as they dance among research perspectives.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI KEGIATAN DOA REMAJA KATOLIK (REKAT) DI PAROKI SANTO HILARIUS KLEPU

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Ag Efendi Darmanto ◽  
Don Bosco Karnan Ardijanto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Way

Prayer was very important in Jesus’ life and the saints’ lives. Prayer also becomes the important need in the faithfuls’ life. Prayer is a mean to fight againts the devil and the power of sin. Prayer is also an expression of faith in God. It also becomes the way of human being to always remember to God. There are some problems: what is prayer? How do the Catholic teens of St. Hilarius’ Parish, Klepu pray together? What kind of benefits of praying together for the Catholic Teens in St. Hilarius’ parish, Klepu? What kind of impedements in praying together that the Catholic Teens of St. Hilarius’ Parish experience? The aims of this research are: to clarify the definition of prayer, to explain how the Catholic Teens of Hilarius’ parish, Klepu to do their praying together, to explain the benefits of prayer together for the Catholic Teens of St. Hilarius’ parish, Klepu. Finally, to identify various factors that supporting or inhibiting the practice of prayer of the Catholic Teens of St. Hilarius’ parish, Klepu. This research used qualitative research methods. In this study there are 10 respondents consisting of 4 male respondents and 6 female respondents. They are between 13-15 years old. They are members of St. Hilarius’ parish, Klepu. The conclusions of the research are: 1) The Catholic Teens of St. Hilarius’ parish, Klepu know the understanding of prayer. 2) The Catholic Teens of St. Hilarius’ parihs, Klepu already carry out prayers in certain times either personally or communal prayer in St. Hilarius’ parish, Klepu. 3) The Catholic Teens of St. Hilarius’ parish, Klepu understand that the benefits of communal prayer are: creating a partnership or relationship with God and friends, as well as the means to develop their personality.

scholarly journals Social Roles in the Ethnographic Fieldwork

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desalegn Amsalu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Social

This paper investigates the concept of social roles in ethnographic fieldwork, its place in the global literature discussing qualitative research methods, and its application in the Ethiopian ethnographic fieldwork. I discuss that social roles are all about seeing one’s role and status, in this case, as researchers, in the social structure of a society or community we do the ethnographic research. Based on my own experience and the experience of other ethnographers elsewhere, I argue that a conscious use of our social roles is a <i>sin qua non</i> for successful ethnographic fieldwork. However, this concept has been given less emphasis in the literature of qualitative research methods. Social roles in the ethnographic fieldwork are especially less known in the Ethiopian ethnographic research experience. <b> </b>

After the Gold Rush: Cleaning Up after Steve Fuller’s Theosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-523
Author(s):  
William T. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
New Ideas

Remedios and Dusek have provided a useful contextualization of Steve Fuller’s recent work in social epistemology. While they have provided some good criticisms of some of Fuller’s new ideas, they fail to provide a systematic critique of Fuller’s retreat from a naturalistic and materialist social epistemology for one embracing transhumanism, intelligent design, and the proactionary imperative. An alternative approach is developed, drawing on Fuller’s early work and incorporating recent work on our biological and cultural evolution as a species.

scholarly journals From security to precariousness: The case of the Greek mass media sector in neoliberal times

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Vassilis Dalkavoukis ◽  
Manos Spyridakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Way

The paper focuses on the way ex-mass media employees experienced a dramatic passage from safe employment to a precarious condition.It is based on fourteen months ethnographic research (August 2012 to October 2013) in the closing premises of the ALTER TV Channel. In addition, fifteen semi–structured interviews were conducted with employees. In the concluding remarks a new type of working subject is questioned through a) the ‘reinvention’ of forgotten economic processes, b) the motivation of any social network to cope with precariousness and c) the critique of the so called ‘old fashioned’ syndicalism.

Urgensi Penguatan Hak Atas Tanah Druwe Desa di Bali

Tunas Agraria ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Putu Dody Sastrawan ◽  
I Gusti Nyoman Guntur ◽  
Dwi Wulan Titik Andari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right

Abstract: Druwe Desa land is a customary whose management is implemented and belongs to desa pakraman. Although it has been acknowledged juridically, but the existence of Druwe Desa land in Bali is experiencing a vacuum related to the legal subject. On that basis, desa pakraman is appointed as subject of rights with respect to its land through the Decree of the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial/Head of National Land Agency Number 276/Kep-19.2/X/2017. The purpose of this research is to: (1) Make map of distribution of Druwe Desa land; (2) Describe the importance of strengthening the right to Druwe Desa land; (3) Describe the procedures for strengthening the right to Druwe Desa land; (4) Describe the benefits of the strengthening of Druwe Desa land rights. To achieve these objectives, qualitative research methods with ethnographic approach are used to understand the efforts of the community in maintaining the existence of Druwe Desa land. The results of this study indicate the potential shifting of the status of Druwe Desa land ownership that can indirectly threaten its existence. For that reason, it is necessary to strengthen the right to Druwe Desa land so that there will be no problems that can reduce the existence of asset of desa pakraman. Steps that need to be taken is the process of certification to obtain legal certainty.Keywords:   Druwe Desa land, desa pakraman, Existence, Tri Hita Karana, Awig-Awig  Intisari: Tanah Druwe Desa merupakan tanah adat yang pengelolaannya dilaksanakan dan menjadi milik desa pakraman. Meskipun sudah diakui secara yuridis, namun keberadaan tanah Druwe Desa di Bali mengalami kekosongan terkait subjek hukumnya. Atas dasar itulah, desa pakraman ditunjuk sebagai subjek hak berkenaan dengan tanah miliknya melalui Keputusan Menteri Agraria dan Tata Ruang/Kepala Badan Pertanahan Nasional Nomor 276/Kep-19.2/X/2017. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk: (1) Membuat peta sebaran tanah Druwe Desa; (2) Mendeskripsikan pentingnya penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa; (3) Mendeskripsikan tata cara penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa; (4) Mendeskripsikan manfaat hasil penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, digunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnografi guna memahami upaya masyarakat dalam menjaga eksistensi tanah Druwe Desa. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya potensi pergeseran status kepemilikan tanah Druwe Desa yang secara tidak langsung dapat mengancam eksistensinya. Untuk itu perlu dilakukan penguatan hak atas tanah Druwe Desa agar tidak terjadi permasalahan yang dapat mengurangi keberadaan aset desa pakraman tersebut. Langkah yang perlu diambil adalah proses pensertipikatan untuk mendapatkan kepastian hukum.Kata Kunci:    Tanah Druwe Desa, desa pakraman, Eksistensi, Tri Hita Karana, Awig-Awig Pendah

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