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Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power (Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods) - Softcover

Book 6 of 6: Routledge on Interpretive Methods

Pachirat, Timothy

 
9780415528986: Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power (Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415528984 ISBN 13: 9780415528986
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Summoned by an anonymous Prosecutor, ten contemporary ethnographers gather in an aging barn to hold a trial of Alice Goffman’s controversial ethnography, On the Run. But before the trial can get underway, a one-eyed wolfdog arrives with a mysterious liquid potion capable of rendering the ethnographers invisible in their fieldsites.

Presented as a play that unfolds in seven acts, the ensuing drama provides readers with both a practical guide for how to conduct immersive participant-observation research and a sophisticated theoretical engagement with the relationship between ethnography as a research method and the operation of power. By interpolating "how-to" aspects of ethnographic research with deeper questions about ethnography’s relationship to power, this book presents a compelling introduction for those new to ethnography and rich theoretical insights for more seasoned ethnographic practitioners from across the social sciences. Just as ethnography as a research method depends crucially on serendipity, surprise, and an openness to ambiguity, the book’s dramatic and dialogic format encourages novices and experts alike to approach the study of power in ways that resist linear programs and dogmatic prescriptions. The result is a playful yet provocative invitation to rekindle those foundational senses of wonder and generative uncertainty that are all too often excluded from conversations about the methodologies and methods we bring to the study of the social world.

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About the Author

Timothy Pachirat is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale University Press, 2011).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415528984
ISBN 13 
9780415528986
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192