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Talk Title: “Situated Ethnography”
Abstract: How do we understand the places and people we study? How do ethnographic approaches shape our analytic understanding of social life? Chicago School and global ethnography are two major ethnographic approaches that dominate how scholars answer these questions. Drawing on insights from Black Feminist Thought, queer theory, women of color feminisms and postcolonialism, I put forth an alternative, one that I call situated ethnography, which consists of two distinct approaches: (1) an emplaced field method, which sees place as constituted by multiple fields, and (2) a place’s situated history, which entails a reimagining of how scholars should write about history and time. This paper has broader significance for the discipline. In focusing on both emplaced fields and a place’s situated history, situated ethnography offers a novel ethnographic method and theoretical insights on the relationship between place and field theory and the role of nonlinear time in social life.
Zoom link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86758203501
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