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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Duncan, Jamie D. I.

Titel

Methodological Approaches: Ethnography and History

Ist Teil von

• Researching Protest Literacies, 2021, Vol.1, p.37-64

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Chapter 3 starts by outlining the main methodological approaches adopted in the book – Ethnography and ethnographic approaches to Literacy Studies – as well as how and why these are suited to studying protest and social movements. For researchers doing fieldwork during historic events and social changes, the importance of multi-sited and multi-temporal ethnographic perspectives is explained, especially the incorporating of historical-transversal perspectives and diachronic ethnography. The rationale for this is then illustrated in the remainder of the chapter, through a detailed discussion of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research carried out in Rio de Janeiro over one year, and how the focus of the book developed throughout this process following the inquiry. The chapter ends by addressing issues of criticality, reflexivity, and problematics that arose during the doing of ethnographic research on protest and literacy amongst the distinctive times and places in which it was carried out.