Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies

Irregular Ethnographies Ethnography has become something of a buzzword in recent years. It is talked about and invoked in disciplines ranging from anthropology and ethnology to literature, history, business administration and design studies. Textbooks that teach ethnography tend to imbue students with the impression that ethnography is a mode of systematic investigation by which the researcher gets closer to the realities of people’s everyday lives. But how straightforward are these processes in reality? As ethnography spreads into new folds of research both within and without the academy, the contributions in this volume demonstrate the manner in which field methods are adjusting, transforming or taking new forms altogether. If textbooks might lead students to believe that observations and interviews are the grounds upon which “good” ethnography can regularly be produced, the authors in this volume take as their point of departure the realization that ethnography is being used in a multitude of different contexts which forces them – and us as readers – to question the “regularities” and “irregularities” of their own work.


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IRREGULAR ETHNOGRAPHIES

Robert Willim and Tom O'Dell

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 6-15

REFLECTIONS ON ORDERLY AND DISORDERLY ETHNOGRAPHY

Richard Wilk

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 16-27

COMPOSING ETHNOGRAPHY

Robert Willim and Tom O'Dell

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 28-41

REFLECTIONS ON RACE, THE BODY AND BOUNDARIES

Elizabeth Chin

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 42-53

DOING-IT-YOURSELF

Billy Ehn

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 54-65

TWISTED FIELD WORKING

Kirsti Mathiesen Hjemdahl Mathiesen Hjemdahl

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 66-81

DESIGNING A WATERWORLD

Sarah Holst Kjær

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 82-97

“WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME COOL QUOTES!”

Katarina Graffman and Kristina Börjesson

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 98-105

NOTES ON ‘NOT BEING THERE’

Rebecka Lennartsson

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 106-116

ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE INVISIBLE

Sarah Pink

2011-01-01 Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2011 • 2011 - Special Issue: Irregular Ethnographies • 117-130

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