Ethnography Unbound - From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Gilbert Brown is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He is the author of Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands and the coeditor (with Sidney I. Dobrin) of Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis , both published by SUNY Press. Sidney I. Dobrin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. With Gary A. Olson, he co-edited Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom , published by SUNY Press, and is co-editor of JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory . Klappentext These provocative new essays redefine the goals! methods! and assumptions of qualitative and ethnographic research in composition studies! making evident not only the crucial importance of ethnographic research! but also its resilience as well. As "Ethnography Unbound makes evident! critical ethnographies are retheorizing their methodologies in ways that both redefine ethnographic practices and values and! at the same time! have begun to liberate ethnographic practices from the often-disabling stronghold of postmodern critique. Showing how ethnography works through dialogic processes and moves toward political ends! this collection opens the doors to rethinking ethnographic research in composition studies.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen Gilbert (EDT)/ Dobrin Brown
• Mitarbeit: Stephen Gilbert Brown (Herausgeber), Sidney I Dobrin (Herausgeber), Sidney I. Dobrin (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.03.2004
• EAN: 9780791460511
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6051-1
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde