Political ethnography : what immersion contributes to the study of power /

Other Authors: Schatz, Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ethnographic immersion and the study of politics / Edward Schatz
  • Two traditions of political ethnography
  • Ethnography of politics: foundations, applications, prospects / Jan Kubik
  • How to tell an axe murderer: an essay on ethnography, truth, and lies / Jessica Allina-Pisano
  • Ethnography as interpretive enterprise : first-person research / Lisa Wedeen
  • When nationalists are not separatists: discarding and recovering academic theories while doing fieldwork in the Basque region of Spain / Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh
  • Ethnographic research in the shadow of civil war / Elisabeth Jean Wood
  • The political in political ethnography: dispatches from the kill floor / Timothy Pachirat
  • Ethnography's varied contributions
  • Scholars as citizens: studying public opinion through ethnography / Katherine Cramer Walsh
  • Ethnography and causality: sorcery and popular culture in the Congo / Michael G. Schatzberg
  • The ethnographic sensibility: overlooked authoritarian dynamics and islamic ambivalences in west Africa / Cedric Jourde
  • Participant-observation, politics, and power relations: Nicaraguan mothers and U.S casino waitresses / Lorraine Bayard de Volo
  • Placing ethnography in the discipline
  • Ethnography and the study of Latin American politics: an agenda for research / Enrique Desmond Arias
  • When you can see the sky through your roof: policy analysis from the bottom up / Corey Shdaimah, Roland Stahl, and Sanford F. Schram
  • Dear author, dear reader: the third hermeneutic in writing and reviewing ethnography / Dvora Yanow
  • Conclusion / What kind(s) of ethnography does political science need? / Edward Schatz.