Political Ethnography : What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power

Schatz, Edward (EDT); Aronoff, Myron J. (FRW)

ISBN 10: 0226736768 / ISBN 13: 9780226736761

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Codice articolo 6241469-n

Riassunto:

Scholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospitable to qualitative methods of research. Lauding the results of this effort and highlighting its potential for the future,Political Ethnography makes a compelling case for one such method in particular. Ethnography, the contributors amply demonstrate in a wide range of original essays, is uniquely suited for illuminating the study of politics.

Situating these pieces within the context of developments in political science, Edward Schatz provides an overarching introduction and substantive prefaces to each of the volume’s four sections. The first of these parts addresses the central ontological and epistemological issues raised by ethnographic work, while the second grapples with the reality that all research is conducted from a first-person perspective. The third section goes on to explore how ethnographic research can provide fresh perspectives on such perennial topics as opinion, causality, and power. Concluding that political ethnography can and should play a central role in the field as a whole, the final chapters illuminate the many ways in which ethnographic approaches can enhance, improve, and, in some areas, transform the study of politics.

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Titolo: Political Ethnography : What Immersion ...
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
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