Beyond groups: seven pillars of peopled ethnography in organizations and                 communities

Brown–Saracino, Japonica; Thurk, Jessica; Fine, Gary Alan

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“…This often results in both personal and personalised discussions of organizational ethnography. For example, in Fine et al's (2008) recent review, ethnographers stand as key characters in the story, discussed by name rather than merely cited. Similarly, recent discussions by Yanow (2009), Czarniawska (2008) and Van Maanen (2006 explore the relationships between the philosophical assumptions of ethnography and the practical actions of the ethnographer.…”

Section: Ethnography and Ethnographersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This highlights the need for organizational ethnographers to respond to changes in both the scale (Brown-Saracino et al 2008) and characteristics of work, with the increasing technological mediation of organizational life as a dominant theme (Garcia et al 2009). Through such discussions, both 'being' and 'there' have been problematized.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Secondly, there is increasing concern with the need to adapt ethnographic practice to meet the changing demands of studying contemporary organizing. As organizational life becomes increasingly fluid, flexible and fleet of foot (Brown-Saracino et al 2008;Czarniawska 2008) 'being there', in a traditional ethnographic sense, becomes more problematic. There is more than a suspicion that what has worked in the past is not necessarily going to provide a useful guide for future research projects (Dicks et al 2006).…”

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From “being there” to “being […] where?”: relocating ethnography

Pritchard

2011

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal

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Purpose: Expands recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography through engaging in a reflexive examination of the ethnographer's situated identity work across different research spaces: academic, personal and the research site itself.Approach: Examines concerns with the traditional notion of 'being there' as it applies to ethnography in contemporary organization studies and, through a confessional account exploring my own experiences as a PhD student conducting ethnography, considers 'being ... where' using the analytic framework of situated identity work.Findings: Identifies both opportunities and challenges for organizational ethnographers facing the question of 'being ... where?' through highlighting the situated nature of researchers' identity work in, across and between different (material and virtual) research spaces.Practical implications: Provides researchers with prompts to examine their own situated identity work, which may prove particularly useful for novice researchers and their supervisors, while also identifying the potential for incorporating these ideas within organizational ethnography more broadly.Value: Offers situated identity work as a means to provide renewed analytic vigour to the confessional genre whilst highlighting new opportunities for reflexive and critical ethnographic research practice.

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2011

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal

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“… This essay may be viewed as a natural extension of Brown‐Saracino, Thurk, and Fine (), who guide the reader through the ways of drawing on multiple sites of research to study small‐group interaction. In an otherwise informative essay, the authors pay little attention to the temporal dimensions of ethnographies that examine small groups in communities and organizations. …”

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Underground Markets as Fields in Transition: Sex Work in New York City

Venkatesh

2013

Sociological Forum

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Most ethnographers visualize their fieldwork study vis-a-vis their long-term commitment to a bounded sociospatial context-an "ecology." In this manner, the majority of ethnographic studies are presented as studies not only of practices but also of recognizable physical ecologies that breathe life into the practices-for example, homes, ghettos, firms, schools, and so on. In the pages that follow, I consider the ways in which the status of place has shifted in urban sex work. The shifting commerce of sexual services in New York enables me to open up a set of methodological issues about the role of space in ethnographic work. One in particular is at the core of this paper: namely, because so many ethnographic labors begin with the selection of a field site, what conceptual issues arise that fieldworkers must pay attention to vis-a-vis that decision? For example, the field site may change, the field site may itself be shaped by wider societal forces, and it may be simply dissolve over time. How does any of this impact a technique that is premised on the dependability of "sitting" so that others may be dependably followed? I draw on the notion of "strategic action fields" to present an alternative analytic framework, one more useful for the challenges ethnographers face.

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“…Working through a series of conference presentations further problematized how I was writing the research and for whom (Richardson, 1990). Finally reflecting on how, precisely, I peopled my ethnographic practice (Brown-Saracino, Thurk, & Fine, 2008;Fine, 2003), I focused on the research setting itself: a world reversed (Bourdieu, 1979). This materio-centric analysis opened up how a seemingly flat democracy of things was deeply implicated in everyday microprocesses of separation and difference.…”

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In the Picture or Off the Wall? Ethical Regulation, Research Habitus, and Unpeopled Ethnography

Hurdley

2010

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article focuses on two unintended consequences of ethical regulation of social enquiry: the exclusion of participants and, subsequently, a transformation of research practice. An ethnography of corridor life in a large university building forms the basis of the discussion. Originally intended as a pilot for a broader study of informal networks of power, the project’s aim seemed unachievable. External ethical bureaucracy engendered an overdeveloped sensitivity to doing wrong, resulting in a bizarre form of reflexivity. The first consequence of ethical constraint is, paradoxically, the exclusion of participants and their worlds, as research projects are ever more tightly framed. However, forced to reflect on her research habitus, the author discovered that a conventional qualitative research focus on participants’ narrative/biographic accounts and face-to-face interaction can be similarly restrictive. In conclusion, the author discusses how practicing an unpeopled ethnography can open up space for democratic, innovative research within the confines of current ethical regulation.

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Beyond groups: seven pillars of peopled ethnography in organizations and communities

Cited by 18 publications

References 34 publications

From “being there” to “being […] where?”: relocating ethnography

From “being there” to “being […] where?”: relocating ethnography

Underground Markets as Fields in Transition: Sex Work in New York City

In the Picture or Off the Wall? Ethical Regulation, Research Habitus, and Unpeopled Ethnography

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