Ethnography: Trends, Traverses and Traditions
Ethnography, @Amsterdam August 27-29th 2014 -> Call for Papers
http://aissr.uva.nl/research/externally-funded-projects/sites/content13/ethnography-27-29-august/intro.html
Ethnography is often seen as one of the principal approaches in qualitative methodology in general. In its large range of data collection methods that can be used within ethnography makes it a thought-provoking theme of this conference. The central question posed at this conference is: How are current societal and technological trends influencing ethnography studying that same society? One could think of more concrete questions such as:
Is ethnography changing due to social media, such as Twitter and Facebook? Does fieldwork look different by using mobile field recording devices, Skype and Youtube?
Has analysis changed as a consequence of Qualitative Analysis Software?
Have theoretical innovations led to new approaches in ethnography?
How is the current economic crisis influencing ethnographic practices for researchers?
What turn are we at now?
What other trends do we see in ethnography today?
But we will also address age-old questions such as boredom, the limits of ethnography, and other pressing matters.
In times of digital information overload, conferences are useful venues to discuss the trending topics within our field. The ESA midterm conference for the Research Network on Qualitative research will be on trends, traverses and traditions in Ethnography. Some of the many questions posed above could be used to approach the vast array of 'new' trends in ethnography. Since one of the methodological virtues of ethnography is the possibility for adaptation to local and new situations, the question might rise whether these trends are actually methodologically new.
Ethnographic research has multiple rich histories and traditions that are often overlooked when focussing on novel trends in its application. For instance, very early ethnographers used different methods and combined qualitative and quantitative sources, long before we started calling it Mixing Methods.
In this conference we will use the term ethnography in a rather broad sense, giving opportunities to all kinds of traverses in which combinations of methods are applied. One could think of ethnography and conversation analysis, Ethnography versus Phenomenography, the archiving of Ethnographic data etcetera.
After the highly successful conference in Lund in 2012, we hope to organise an equally interesting conference in the heart of Amsterdam, combining classic presentations with a social program that consists of a Fieldwork experiment, interactive lunch sessions and interesting keynotes by Peter Geschiere<http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/staff-members/content/g/e/p.l.geschiere/p.l.geschiere.html>, Christian Heath<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/management/people/academic/heath.aspx>, Susie Scott<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/171734>, Stefan Timmermans and <http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/professors/STEFAN%20TIMMERMANS/?id=58> Ruth Wodak<http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/ruth-wodak>.
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