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W052


Making sense together: the role of participants in ethnography 
Convenor:
Paul Clough (University of Malta)
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Formats:
Workshops
Location:
JHT6
Start time:
27 August, 2010 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
2

Short Abstract:

This session seeks to explore research that contributes to the creative re-examination of ethnography by stressing an active role for participants in the gathering and interpretation of data. It aims to further a theoretical framework for the ethnographic practice of making sense together.

Long Abstract:

This session explores research that contributes to the creative re-examination of ethnography by stressing the active role of participants in the gathering and interpretation of data. The crisis in representation in ethnography has not put an end to methodological questions. On the contrary, it opened up possibilities for experimentation and creative re-examination of ethnographic practice. By rejecting the possibility of objective observation of pre-existing cultural objects, ethnography has been reconceived as a constructed account of an emergent object, written by an ethnographer actively engaged in the production of ethnographic reality. The object of study is now seen to be the interaction between a positioned ethnographer and the culture under study. Not only the inevitability of interaction but also the need for joint interpretation with the participants is increasingly stressed. However, the practical implications of this new stance towards participants for research remain largely unclear.

Accepted papers:

Session 1