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The Lost Ethnographies - Methodological Insights From Projects That Never Were (Hardcover)
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The Lost Ethnographies - Methodological Insights From Projects That Never Were (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Qualitative Methodology
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The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt
from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed.
Experienced researchers write about projects they planned, and were
excited about, which then never began, had to be abandoned, or took
such unexpected directions that it became a different piece of work
altogether. The topics and settings are varied and disparate, but
the lessons learnt have important similarities. This collection
focuses on absences; topics and settings that remain under
researched; taken for granted aspects of social life that have not
been scrutinized, and finally the potential insights that are
gained when absences are carefully examined and explored. Readers
will learn a great deal about research design, fundraising, writing
up, access negotiations, serendipity in the field, and the complex
interaction between the body and the brain of the ethnographer and
the realities of ethnographic research. Maximising learning from
the 'failings' of ourselves and of others is the positive message
of the collection. The most poignant chapters are those in which
the author 'returns' to reread and reflect on a past project;
something that is not done often enough, partly because it can be
painful. The accounts of projects which had to be abandoned or
radically changed offer hope to researchers facing difficulties in
their own investigations. These reflections, on projects that were
never even begun, show how to gain fresh energy and social science
insight from apparent rejection, and the collection approaches the
whole concept of lost ethnography in provocative ways.
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