Urban ethnography : legacies and challenges /

Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practition...

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Other Authors: Ocejo, Richard E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2019]
Series:Research in urban sociology ; v. 16.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Building Bridges in Urban Ethnography; Richard E. Ocejo Part I. The Legacy of the Chicago School Chapter 1. From Chicago to Bologna: The Persistent Importance of the Chicago School in American and Italian Urban Sociology; Gabriele Manella Chapter 2. Global Ethnography: Lessons from the Chicago School; Victoria Reyes Part II. How to Train Ethnographers Chapter 3. Becoming the City: Teaching Urban Ethnography and Mentoring Urban Ethnographers; Stefan Timmermans and Pamela J. Prickett Chapter 4. Teaching and Learning the Craft: The Construction of Ethnographic Objects; Katherine Jensen and Javier Auyero Part III. Thinking about Space and Place Chapter 5. Place Exploration: Six Tensions to Better Conceptualize Place as a Social Actor in Urban Ethnography; Thomas Corcoran, Jennifer Abrams, and Jonathan R. Wynn Chapter 6. Interaction Order as Cultural Sociology within Urban Ethnography; Waverly Duck and Mitchell Kiefer Chapter 7. Visibility is Survival: The Chocolate Maps of Black Gay Life in Urban Ethnography; Marcus Anthony Hunter and Terrell J.A. Winder Chapter 8. The Missing Middle Class: Race, Suburban Ethnography, and the Challenges of "Studying Up"; Karyn Lacy Part IV. Layered Identities Chapter 9. Black (American) Girl in the Banlieue: Doing Race and Ethnography as an American in France; Jean Beaman Chapter 10. The Gendered Dynamics of Urban Ethnography: What the Researcher's "Location" Means for the Production of Ethnographic Knowledge; Rebecca Hanson Chapter 11. The Migrant Ethnographer: When the Field Becomes Home; James Farrer.