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Diffractive Ethnography - Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn (Paperback): Jessica Smartt Gullion Diffractive Ethnography - Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn (Paperback)
Jessica Smartt Gullion
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Across intellectual disciplines, the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics, the turn invites us to think about intra-actions and assemblages of human and nonhuman entities. This raises epistemological questions about how we know about the world, and spotlights some of the problems with how we currently do conventional social science research. Diffractive Ethnography invites social scientists to consider alternate methodologies that account for the complexity of human behavior situated in larger environmental contexts. For both novice and experienced researchers, this thought-provoking book opens new ways of thinking about methodology and raises questions about the ethical and justice orientations of our work.

Diffractive Ethnography - Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn (Hardcover): Jessica Smartt Gullion Diffractive Ethnography - Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn (Hardcover)
Jessica Smartt Gullion
R3,974 Discovery Miles 39 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Across intellectual disciplines, the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics, the turn invites us to think about intra-actions and assemblages of human and nonhuman entities. This raises epistemological questions about how we know about the world, and spotlights some of the problems with how we currently do conventional social science research. Diffractive Ethnography invites social scientists to consider alternate methodologies that account for the complexity of human behavior situated in larger environmental contexts. For both novice and experienced researchers, this thought-provoking book opens new ways of thinking about methodology and raises questions about the ethical and justice orientations of our work.

Teacher, Scholar, Mother - Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy (Hardcover): Anna M. Young Teacher, Scholar, Mother - Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy (Hardcover)
Anna M. Young; Contributions by Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, M Cristina Alcalde, Allison Antink-Meyer, Cynthia J. Atman, …
R2,722 Discovery Miles 27 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and trans-disciplinary book features mother scholars who bring their theoretical and disciplinary lenses to bear on questions of identity, practice, policy, institutional memory, progress, and the gendered notion of parenting that still pervades the modern academy.

Fracking the Neighborhood - Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling (Paperback): Jessica Smartt Gullion Fracking the Neighborhood - Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling (Paperback)
Jessica Smartt Gullion
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking. When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessica Smartt Gullion examines what happens when natural gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," takes place not on wide-open rural land but in a densely populated area with homes, schools, hospitals, parks, and businesses. Gullion focuses on fracking in the Barnett Shale, the natural-gas-rich geological formation under the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. She gives voice to the residents-for the most part educated, middle class, and politically conservative-who became reluctant anti-drilling activists in response to perceived environmental and health threats posed by fracking. Gullion offers an overview of oil and gas development and describes the fossil-fuel culture of Texas, the process of fracking, related health concerns, and regulatory issues (including the notorious "Halliburton loophole"). She chronicles the experiences of community activists as they fight to be heard and to get the facts about the safety of fracking. Touted as a greener alternative and a means to reduce dependence on foreign oil, natural gas development is an important part of American energy policy. Yet, as this book shows, it comes at a cost to the local communities who bear the health and environmental burdens.

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