Qualitative methods II: On the presentation of ‘geographical ethnography’

Hitchings, Russell; Latham, Alan

doi:10.1177/0309132519879986

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“…The research takes an ethnographic perspective and an actor‐oriented, case‐study focused approach (Bohnsack, 2010; Campbell & Lassiter, 2015; Hitchings & Latham, 2020). The ethnographic perspective allows applying a mixed‐methods approach for data collection and analysis.…”

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On‐ and offstage: Encountering entangled waste–tourism relations on the Vietnamese Island of Phu Quoc

Kerber

Kramm

2021

Geographical Journal

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Vietnam's most popular island, Phu Quoc, is undergoing rapid social-ecological change. Two crucial drivers of this are tourism development and plastic-intensive everyday practices. The growing amount of wasted single-use plastics is increasingly shaping the appearance of places on the island and challenging the creation of tourist imaginaries of a pristine tropical landscape. Very few qualitative empirical studies have analysed the place-making quality of waste in tourism settings, along with everyday waste management practices and their social-spatial implications. The paper draws on Goffman's theatre metaphor of front-and backstage places to explore waste-tourism relations as an ongoing place-making practice aimed at creating the image tourists are seeking. We scrutinise the place-making efforts of both the international tourism industry and local authorities. Our empirical findings reveal that the frontstage paradise makes backstage places necessary to accumulate or store discarded items. As our research shows, this has led to increasing spatial fragmentation of the island into clean places for tourists and dirty places for residents, reflecting an unequal distribution of the waste burden.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On‐ and offstage: Encountering entangled waste–tourism relations on the Vietnamese Island of Phu Quoc

Kerber

Kramm

2021

Geographical Journal

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“…While anthropologists may have developed ethnography into a scholarly form of art, various other fields have incorporated ethnographic elements into their work. For instance, in geography Hitchings and Latham ( 2019 ) observe that authors deploying the concept “ethnographic” tend to communicate that their research strives to place the respondents’ interviews amidst their lived social action. A key concept in ethnography is the idea of “the field.” In ethnography, fieldwork implies a researcher staying for an extended period in a place, engaged in interaction with research participants “on their home ground” (Van Maanen 2011 , p. 2).…”

Section: Spatiality and Temporality In Qualitative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data, Disasters, and Space-Time Entanglements

Meriläinen

Koro‐Ljungberg

2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Disasters connected to natural hazards can at the same time be unfolding events, as well as structural phenomena with unequal disaster risk constructed over an extended timespan. Hence, in disaster studies, temporality and spatiality are central, yet often implicit, concepts employed to make sense of the disaster phenomena. In this article we explicitly focus on temporality and spatiality within qualitative disaster studies, particularly those containing ethnographic elements. We use Doreen Massey’s idea of space-time trajectories to analyze and illustrate how in qualitative disaster studies the trajectories of the disaster, research participants, and the researcher entangle in diverse ways. The focus is on how temporality and spatiality are present in the construction of data. The article is mainly conceptual, with illustrations drawn from empirical fieldwork on Valparaíso fire of 2014 in Chile. We interrogate how researchers’ sensitivity to temporality and spatiality challenges the conventional notions and practices of “data” in qualitative disaster studies. The focus in this article is on disaster studies, but it also offers methodological insights to other social sciences that strive to conduct research in the era of “Anthropocene,” with all its shifts and changes, the root causes of which have built over a long time.

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“…The ideas presented in this editorial come from an on‐going conversation with Russell Hitchings. A more in‐depth exploration of some of the key themes discussed here can be found a series of progress reports on qualitative methods recently published in Progress in Human Geography (Hitchings and Latham, 2020a; 2020b; 2020c).…”

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“…Reading through the most highly cited journals it would seem that human geographers think through theory rather than method. Questions about precisely how interviews were carried out and analysed, for example, or what was involved in an ethnography are frequently black boxed – treated as self‐evident, not worthy of detailed explanation (Hitchings and Latham, 2020a; 2020b; 2020c).…”

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