Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice [Paperback]

This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understand many of the current issues and concernswith specific exemplars from around the globefor ethnographers. 'Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice' will have its finger on the pulse of contemporary ethnography. Chapters demonstrate up-to-the-moment awareness of ethnographic methods, concerns, and subject matters within contemporary ethnographic writing. Authors are deeply engaged in both their subject matter and their method. For example, discussion of ethical issues surrounding visual methods of collecting for photo-ethnographies is anticipated as a potential hot topic for this book. Unlike other ethnographic books which often suggest giving voice to others , this book will actually give voice to a wide variety of perspectives, from the points of view of researchers.This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of emerging methodologies, practice and advocacy, and social justice and transformation. It provides an up-to-date examination of ethnographic practices and methodologies.

Chapter 1. Proem: Engaging Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines; Robert E. Rinehart, Karen Barbour and Clive Pope.- Part I. Social Justice and Transformation: Theoretical Ethnographic Visions.- Chapter 2. Social Justice, Transformation and Indigenous Methodologies.- Linda Tuhiwai Smith.- Chapter 3. Voices of Women in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Visual Narrative, Social Justice and Empowerment; Annette Blum.- Chapter 4. Advanced Marginalization and Re-Criminalization of Undocumented Immigrants in the Post-Neoliberal State; Kennosuke Tanaka.- Chapter 5.- Rethinking English in Maori Mediuml³J