Love in the Time of Ethnography (eBook)

Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research

Lucinda Carspecken (Herausgeber)

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2017
246 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4318-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In Love in the Time of Ethnography, the contributors argue that research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one. The authors explore love—variously defined—as an important facet of human experience, as a way of knowing and as an ethical rationale for ethnography.

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Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love variously defined as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women ';coming home' to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common ground between Dogen's Zen teachings and Habermass critical theory, an Albanian Sufi community in Michigan and interactions between humans and the natural world. It also includes theoretical writing on the place of love in social analysis, whether this involves relationships between researchers and participants or the nature of human connection itself. The authors argue that social research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one, and that fellow feeling is an essential component of making sense of the world.Along with more traditional scholarly forms, the contributors to this book use auto-ethnography, life stories, archival research and poetry, noting that style itself conveys information and emotion. Writing is always to some extent partisan. While anthropologists and other social researchers have explored this idea over the last few decades, they have more often explored it with an eye to critique than to the ideals underlying that critique. This is a collection of essays about what ethnographers are aiming for as well as the problems they address, and the authors discuss ethical principles like agape, hizmet and cario as rationales for ethnography and rationales for social change.

Autor

Lucinda Carspecken is lecturer in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Indiana University.

Inhalt

Leslie E. SponselLucinda CarspeckenCariño: A Comparative Analysis of Movement Making Among Unapologetic Youth by Felipe VargasIan Skoggard by Michael VerdeJana Clarke and Barbara DennisFrances TrixRachelle Winkle-WagnerPeiwei LiAdam HenzePhil Francis Carspecken

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
• Co-Autor: Lucinda Carspecken, Felipe Vargas, Michael Verde, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Phil Francis Carspecken, Jana Clark, Barbara Dennis, Adam Henze, Peiwei Li, Ian Skoggard, Leslie E. Sponsel, Frances Trix
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Affect • Anthropology of Affect • Anthropology of Experience • Emotion • Ethnographic writing • ethnography • Humanistic Research • Love • qualitative inquiry • Qualitative research
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4318-9 / 1498543189
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4318-7 / 9781498543187