Together apart: field notes as artefacts of collaborative ethnography

Safronov, Petr; Bochaver, A.A.; Nisskaya, Anastasia; Koroleva, Diana

doi:10.1080/17457823.2019.1600154

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“…Participant observation entailed regular observations, involvement in daily routines, and the development of ongoing relations with participants in the two encampments [ 34 ]. Observations, key quotations, targeted interviews, and conversations were documented by writing contemporaneous fieldnotes in notebooks [ 35 , 36 ]. These notes served as the basis for an end-of-the-day joint fieldnote that created consensus across the fieldwork descriptions between the anthropologists [ 35 ].…”

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Purity, Danger, and Patriotism: The Struggle for a Veteran Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kalofonos

McCoy

2023

Pathogens

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rendered congregate shelter settings high risk, creating vulnerability for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). This study employed participant observation and interviews over 16 months in two Veteran encampments, one located on the grounds of the West Los Angeles Veteran Affairs Medical Center (WLAVA) serving as an emergency COVID-19 mitigation measure, and the other outside the WLAVA gates protesting the lack of onsite VA housing. Study participants included Veterans and VA personnel. Data were analyzed using grounded theory, accompanied by social theories of syndemics, purity, danger, and home. The study reveals that Veterans conceptualized home not merely as physical shelter but as encompassing a sense of inclusion and belonging. They sought a Veteran-run collective with a harm reduction approach to substance use, onsite healthcare, and inclusive terms (e.g., no sobriety requirements, curfews, mandatory treatment, or limited lengths of stay). The twin encampments created distinct forms of community and care that protected Veterans from COVID-19 infection and bolstered collective survival. The study concludes that PEH constitute and belong to communities that provide substantial benefits even while amplifying certain harms. Housing interventions must consider how unhoused individuals become, or fail to become, integrate into various communities, and foster therapeutic community connections.

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Purity, Danger, and Patriotism: The Struggle for a Veteran Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kalofonos

McCoy

2023

Pathogens

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“…Fieldnotes are intrinsic to the performance of ethnographically informed, community-based qualitative research (Spradley, 1979) and they contribute to this report by providing the reader with direct access to the researchers' en-scene interpretations, Moreover, they provide an interpretative and analytical bridge to the broader corpus of collaborative research methods (Safronov et al, 2020) described herein.…”

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Psychosocial health in adolescent unmarried motherhood in rural Uganda: Implications for community-based collaborative mental health education, and empowerment strategies in the prevention of depression and suicide

Webb

Kyaddondo

Ford

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Transcult Psychiatry

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Teenage pregnancy rates in Uganda are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. Child marriage is often the result of unmarried teenage pregnancy and is recognised by Uganda's government as a form of sexual violence and an outcome of inequality. However, unmarried motherhood incurs stigma and shame within traditionally living rural communities. Using co-produced Open Space and ethnographic methods, we examined the psychosocial impact of unmarried motherhood on girls and their communities, and explored problem-solving with key local stakeholders. Findings indicate that girls experience extreme stress, social exclusion and rejection by their families, and experience bereavement from school expulsion and the loss of their career aspirations. Depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviour are reportedly not uncommon among this population group. Community and family efforts to promote marriage for these mothers to avoid social stigma increased the mothers’ feelings of depression, whereas mothers who became independent appeared to fare better psychologically. Community members and local stakeholders demonstrated a willingness to act locally to reduce the negative impacts of unmarried motherhood but lacked knowledge and support resources. Our findings indicate that mental health promotion for teenage mothers is likely to be better served through empowerment strategies rather than marriage and, in a context of poor mental health service access, there is a substantial role for community mobilisation and the promotion of self-help strategies to support teenage mothers. This study raises important points regarding different community understandings of depression and indicates collaboration between professionals and communities for a values-based approach.

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“…The participants were writing in the same weekly throughout the 12 weeks that the intervention lasted. It is a tool that allows the teacher to take a perspective on the development of his/her own practice, and that, applied over time, favors a greater understanding of the context in which one acts (Safronov et al, 2020).…”

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“Cooperative Learning Does Not Work for Me”: Analysis of Its Implementation in Future Physical Education Teachers

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Cooperative learning (CL) is one of the pedagogical models that has had more application in the area of Physical Education (PE), being highly worked in the initial training of teachers. The aim of the study is to check to what extent future PE teachers are able to apply in the classroom the PE training they have received at university, deepening their fears, insecurities and problems when carrying it out. Thirteen future PE teachers (7 girls and 6 boys) aged 20.87 ± 1.43 participated and, after having been trained in CL in various subjects, applied it in the classroom during their internship. They were selected through purposeful non-probability sampling. A qualitative methodology was used, being the interviews, the teaching diaries and the seminars with the tutor the instruments of data collection used. Three categories of analysis were used: (a) initial expectations in the application of the CL; (b) problems encountered in its implementation; (c) reflection about its application in the future. The results showed how the future teachers did not see their expectations of success fulfilled, encountering resistance from both students and teachers in PE. Furthermore, they reflect the need to continue training in a model that has infinite nuances so that it can be implemented satisfactorily. It is necessary to continue researching a pedagogical model with so many possibilities in the area of PE and with so much transversality on a social level.

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Together apart: field notes as artefacts of collaborative ethnography

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Purity, Danger, and Patriotism: The Struggle for a Veteran Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Purity, Danger, and Patriotism: The Struggle for a Veteran Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Psychosocial health in adolescent unmarried motherhood in rural Uganda: Implications for community-based collaborative mental health education, and empowerment strategies in the prevention of depression and suicide

“Cooperative Learning Does Not Work for Me”: Analysis of Its Implementation in Future Physical Education Teachers

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