25 research outputs found
Is it any wonder? On commissioning an ‘uncommissioned’ atmosphere: a reply to Hillary and Sumartojo
This article is a reply to Fiona Hillary and Shanti Sumartojo’s “Empty-Nursery Blue: On Atmosphere, Meaning and Methodology in Melbourne Street Art”, published in Public Art Dialogue in October 2014.1 Hillary and Sumartojo present a welcome addition to the literature on street art and graffiti in their sustained analytic focus on a particular work of street art and its place-based reception. However, their analysis of Adrian Doyle’s Empty Nursery Blue is compromised by their largely unacknowledged investment and involvement as commissioners and curators of the work. Further, Hillary and Sumartojo’s adoption of the concept of affective atmosphere and a positive sense of enchantment operates to discount viewers’ contradictory social-emotional responses to the work. While the authors’ attempt to incorporate authoethnographic methods appears promising, in practice this bears little in common with the critically reflexive practice of autoethnography, and is rather used as a circular rhetorical device to demonstrate the presence of the very notion of enchantment so central to the authors’ interpretation of Empty Nursery Blue. The liminal status of Empty Nursery Blue as apparently uncommissioned street art and as commissioned public art presents an unacknowledged tension at the core of this partial interpretation that may yet be ultimately productive of the very notion of wonder and enchantment. A critical expansion of the notion of enchantment to encompass a variety of affective responses and forms of material and ethical engagement is suggested
Review: Ina-Maria Greverus, Sharon MacDonald, Regina Romhild, Gisela Welz & Helena Wullf (Eds.) (2002). Stability Upon Shifting Ground: Review Note of Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography
Der Band von GREVERUS et al. ist als Review zu "Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography" erschienen, einer Ausgabe des Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. GREVERUS et al. beschäftigen sich mit der Geschichte und den Implikationen von Ethnographie als einer Methodologie, die in verschiedenen akademischen Disziplinen von Bedeutung ist, wobei sie den Autoren von "Shifting Grounds" ihre Anerkennung zollen für die unterschiedlichen Arten des dort beschriebenen "doing ethnography". Indem Körper als Gegenstand der Ethnographie verstanden und untersucht werden, an denen Leben und Geschichten zum Ausdruck kommen, beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit den unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der Autoren und Autorinnen auf experimentelle und performative Ethnographie unter Bezugnahme auf bedeutsame aktuelle Fragen innerhalb der Anthropologie. Anknüpfend sowohl an die anthropologische als auch an die historische Wende der Ethnographie werden in GREVERUS et al. Fragen der Mobilität von Feldarbeit, von Zeit, Raum, Multi-Lokalität, von Tourismus und Tradition/Kultur diskutiert. "Shifting Grounds" gewährt dabei nicht nur Einblicke in die ethnographische Praxis, es eröffnet auch neue Wege des "doing ethnography".This review is written in response to "Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography," a volume of the Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. This review cites the history and implications of ethnography as a methodology within various academic disciplines while praising the authors within this text for their contributions to various ways of "doing ethnography." By investigating and considering the body as an ethnographic site where life and stories are performed and embodied, this article considers the varying ways the authors respond to experimental and performative ethnography while applying it to relevant and current issues within anthropology. By engaging both the anthropological and historical turn of ethnography, this book thematically discusses the mobility of fieldwork, time, space, multi-locality, tourism, and tradition/culture. Shifting Grounds does not only offer experiments in doing ethnography, it also offers alternatives for doing ethnography.Esta reseña es a propósito de "Cambios de fondo: Experimentos en el hacer etnográfico", un volumen de la Revista de Antropología sobre Culturas Europeas. En ella se alude a la historia e implicaciones de la etnografía como metodología dentro de varias disciplinas académicas y se elogia a los autores del texto por sus variadas contribuciones al "hacer etnográfico". A través de investigaciones y considerando el cuerpo etnográfico como un sitio donde la vida y las historias son representadas y personificadas, este artículo considera las variadas formas en que los autores responden a la etnografía experimental y representativa mientras la aplican en actuales y relevantes aspectos dentro de la antropología. A través de los cambios históricos de la antropología y la etnografía, este libro debate temáticamente acerca de la movilidad del trabajo de campo, el tiempo, el espacio, la multi-localidad, el turismo, y la cultura/tradición. "Cambios de fondo" no sólo muestra experimentos en el hacer etnográfico, también aporta alternativas a su hacer
Reseña: Ina-Maria Greverus, Sharon MacDonald, Regina Romhild, Gisela Welz & Helena Wullf (Eds.) (2002). Stability Upon Shifting Ground: Review Note of Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography
Der Band von GREVERUS et al. ist als Review zu "Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography" erschienen, einer Ausgabe des Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. GREVERUS et al. beschäftigen sich mit der Geschichte und den Implikationen von Ethnographie als einer Methodologie, die in verschiedenen akademischen Disziplinen von Bedeutung ist, wobei sie den Autoren von "Shifting Grounds" ihre Anerkennung zollen für die unterschiedlichen Arten des dort beschriebenen "doing ethnography". Indem Körper als Gegenstand der Ethnographie verstanden und untersucht werden, an denen Leben und Geschichten zum Ausdruck kommen, beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit den unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der Autoren und Autorinnen auf experimentelle und performative Ethnographie unter Bezugnahme auf bedeutsame aktuelle Fragen innerhalb der Anthropologie. Anknüpfend sowohl an die anthropologische als auch an die historische Wende der Ethnographie werden in GREVERUS et al. Fragen der Mobilität von Feldarbeit, von Zeit, Raum, Multi-Lokalität, von Tourismus und Tradition/Kultur diskutiert. "Shifting Grounds" gewährt dabei nicht nur Einblicke in die ethnographische Praxis, es eröffnet auch neue Wege des "doing ethnography".
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0503175This review is written in response to "Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography," a volume of the Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. This review cites the history and implications of ethnography as a methodology within various academic disciplines while praising the authors within this text for their contributions to various ways of "doing ethnography." By investigating and considering the body as an ethnographic site where life and stories are performed and embodied, this article considers the varying ways the authors respond to experimental and performative ethnography while applying it to relevant and current issues within anthropology. By engaging both the anthropological and historical turn of ethnography, this book thematically discusses the mobility of fieldwork, time, space, multi-locality, tourism, and tradition/culture. Shifting Grounds does not only offer experiments in doing ethnography, it also offers alternatives for doing ethnography.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0503175Esta reseña es a propósito de "Cambios de fondo: Experimentos en el hacer etnográfico", un volumen de la Revista de Antropología sobre Culturas Europeas. En ella se alude a la historia e implicaciones de la etnografía como metodología dentro de varias disciplinas académicas y se elogia a los autores del texto por sus variadas contribuciones al "hacer etnográfico". A través de investigaciones y considerando el cuerpo etnográfico como un sitio donde la vida y las historias son representadas y personificadas, este artículo considera las variadas formas en que los autores responden a la etnografía experimental y representativa mientras la aplican en actuales y relevantes aspectos dentro de la antropología. A través de los cambios históricos de la antropología y la etnografía, este libro debate temáticamente acerca de la movilidad del trabajo de campo, el tiempo, el espacio, la multi-localidad, el turismo, y la cultura/tradición. "Cambios de fondo" no sólo muestra experimentos en el hacer etnográfico, también aporta alternativas a su hacer.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs050317
Southern Black Women: Their Lived Realities
Focusing on the lived experiences of ten rural black women in a familial community in central North Carolina, this project documents the mundane and extraordinary events of their lives and how they create meaningful lives through storytelling. Theoretically grounded in black feminist thought, intersectionality theory and muted group theory the investigation calls for the use of storytelling and poetry to understand how rural black women experience, live, and communicate their lives. Merging the experiences of participants with the researcher, the study also considers the ethical implications of being an insider-outsider and offers suggestions for engaging in creative scholarship. The author uses a combination of various qualitative methods, including ethnography, participant observation, interactive interviewing and autoethnography, to better understand her experiences as a rural black woman. The author combines archival research about the community, personal reflections, field notes and interview transcripts, translating the data into stories about rural black women\u27s lives. The study shows how the stories rural black women share, the secrets they hold, and the activities of their daily lives offer a window for understanding concrete lived experiences as communication experiences
Southern Black Women: Their Lived Realities
Focusing on the lived experiences of ten rural black women in a familial community in central North Carolina, this project documents the mundane and extraordinary events of their lives and how they create meaningful lives through storytelling. Theoretically grounded in black feminist thought, intersectionality theory and muted group theory the investigation calls for the use of storytelling and poetry to understand how rural black women experience, live, and communicate their lives. Merging the experiences of participants with the researcher, the study also considers the ethical implications of being an insider-outsider and offers suggestions for engaging in creative scholarship. The author uses a combination of various qualitative methods, including ethnography, participant observation, interactive interviewing and autoethnography, to better understand her experiences as a rural black woman. The author combines archival research about the community, personal reflections, field notes and interview transcripts, translating the data into stories about rural black women\u27s lives. The study shows how the stories rural black women share, the secrets they hold, and the activities of their daily lives offer a window for understanding concrete lived experiences as communication experiences
Queer and quare autoethnography
As researchers committed to personal narrative and social justice, we frequently use our experiences to identify abuses of power and instances of harm, offer accounts of marginal and silenced stories, and acknowledge and decenter our own positions of cultural privilege. To assist us with these commitments, we often rely on the aims and practices of queer theory, quare theory, and autoethnographycritical theoretical and methodological orientations that, when taken together, offer insights for using personal experience to describe abuses of power and tools for crafting evocative and accessible accounts of cultural life
Queer and quare autoethnography
As researchers committed to personal narrative and social justice, we frequently use our experiences to identify abuses of power and instances of harm, offer accounts of marginal and silenced stories, and acknowledge and decenter our own positions of cultural privilege. To assist us with these commitments, we often rely on the aims and practices of queer theory, quare theory, and autoethnographycritical theoretical and methodological orientations that, when taken together, offer insights for using personal experience to describe abuses of power and tools for crafting evocative and accessible accounts of cultural life
You and me will never part: a study of Black women's best friendships
The existing literature on women's friendship lacks information about Black women's friendships. Few researchers (e.g., Goins, 2011; Denton, 1990) have looked specifically at Black women's friendship and the role they play in Black women's lives. This project answers the call set forth by Houston (2002) and others for more work to be done in interpersonal communication about African Americans from within the African American community. This project found that Black women's best friend relationships begin with similarities, loyalty, understanding and dependability. Once the women become best friends, they must be honest, loyal/trustworthy, understanding, positive, and spend time together. They maintain their friendship with open communication within their friendship, the modes of communication they choose, and the topics of conversations that they have. (Published By University of Alabama Libraries
Those queer teen years: an autoethnography of reading and realizing queer identity
High school can be a harrowing time for almost anyone, but that is especially true of any number of students who fall into underrepresented or subaltern groups. Students that identify with marginalized populations may often face difficulty finding characters and people to relate to not only in real life, but also in the media. This thesis looks at the ways in which the struggle to find these mediated representations--especially in young adult targeted literature can affect the worldview of queer identified teenagers. In order to dynamically and effectively interrogate the availability and quality of queer representation in young adult literature, this thesis makes use of the autoethnographic tradition, examining the effects the literature may have on the formative identity of a queer teen through personal narrative and lived experience. Through this narrative, presented as a layered account, theoretical concepts such as the closet, passing, representation, performance, and muted groups are all presented as part of "those queer teen years. (Published By University of Alabama Libraries