Ethnographic Worldviews

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Proem: Engaging Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines

   • Robert E. Rinehart, Karen N. Barbour, Clive C. Pope

   Pages 1-11

3. Social Justice and Transformation: Theoretical Ethnographic Visions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Social Justice, Transformation and Indigenous Methodologies

      • Linda Tuhiwai Smith

      Pages 15-20

   3. Amazwi Abesifazane and Mapula: Alternative Spaces of Narrative, Disclosure and Empowerment in Post-apartheid South Africa

      • Annette Blum

      Pages 21-38

   4. Advanced Marginalization and Re-criminalization of Undocumented Workers in the U.S.

      • Kennosuke Tanaka

      Pages 39-48

   5. Finding a Space for English: A Case Study of How a Māori-Medium School Negotiates the Teaching of Māori and English

      • Richard Hill

      Pages 49-60

   6. Negotiating Safe and Unsafe Space: Participation, Discomfort and Response-Ability in Higher Education Institute Transformation in South Africa

      • Helen Macdonald

      Pages 61-73

4. Practice and Advocacy: Doing Ethnography on the Ground

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Living and Learning Together: Principled Practice for Engagement and Social Transformation in the East Kimberley Region of Western Australia

      • Neil Drew

      Pages 77-91

   3. The Journey to a Good Life: Exploring Personal and Organisational Transformation Through Digital Storytelling

      • Elaine Bliss, Janelle Fisher

      Pages 93-107

   4. Toi tu te whenua, toi tu te tangata: A Holistic Māori Approach to Flood Management

      • Liz Proctor

      Pages 109-123

   5. One Woman, One Too Many

      • Lisa Hayes

      Pages 125-138

   6. Co-creating Visual Theories of Change with Treaty and Decolonisation Activists

      • Ingrid L. M. Huygens

      Pages 139-151

5. Emerging Methods: Traditional, Experimental, Transgressive Forms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Sustaining Fish-Human Communities? A More-Than-Human Question

      • Elspeth Probyn

      Pages 155-171

   3. Acts of Representation: A Labour of Love

      • Karen N. Barbour

      Pages 173-185

   4. Battered in the Media: The Value of Theorizing as a Method for Lessening the Pain of Lived Experience

      • Toni Bruce

      Pages 187-203

   5. The ‘Insider’s View’ in Media Studies: A Case Study of the Performance Ethnography of Mobile Media

      • Kyoung-hwa Yonnie Kim

      Pages 205-215

   6. Erica’s Story: A Poetic Representation of Loss and Struggle

      • Vivienne Elizabeth, Nicola Gavey, Julia Tolmie

      Pages 217-232

This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understand many of the current issues and concerns—with specific exemplars from around the globe—for ethnographers. 'Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice' will have its "finger on the pulse" of contemporary ethnography. Chapters demonstrate up-to-the-moment awareness of ethnographic methods, concerns, and subject matters within contemporary ethnographic writing. Authors are deeply engaged in both their subject matter and their method. For example, discussion of ethical issues surrounding visual methods of "collecting" for photo-ethnographies is anticipated as a potential hot topic for this book. Unlike other ethnographic books which often suggest "giving voice to others", this book will actually give voice to a wide variety of perspectives, from the points of view of researchers.

• Contemporary Ethnography
• English Education in Maori
• Ethnographic social justice perspective
• Ethnography
• Ethnography in Mobile Media Studies
• Fish-Human Communities
• Indigenous research
• Performance ethnography as a methodological perspective
• Person Driven Practise (PDP)
• Post-Apartheid South Africa
• Social Transformation in Western Australia
• Social justice
• Theoretical ethnographic visions
• Transdisciplinary
• Transformation in Higher Education Institute in South Africa
• Transformative practices
• Usefulness or Digital Storytelling

• Sport & Leisure Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

  Robert E. Rinehart, Karen N. Barbour, Clive C. Pope

Robert Rinehart is an Associate Professor in Sport & Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.  He is the author of Players All:  Performances in Contemporary Sport (Indiana University Press, 1998), and co-editor, with Synthia Sydnor, of To the Extreme:  Alternative Sport, Inside and Out (SUNY Press, 2003), and is currently working on a book examining sport, business, education, and peace.  He is also convenor for the Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines biennual conference (cead.org.nz).

Karen Nicole Barbour is a senior lecturer in dance and choreography at the University of Waikato. She is committed to fostering qualitative dance research, specifically in choreographic practice, contemporary dance, improvisation, site-specific dance, and digital dance. She has recently published Dancing across the page: Narrative and embodied ways of knowing (2011). Her current research interests lie in collaborative artistic research, feminist choreographic practices, and narrative writing practices to express lived experiences.

Clive Pope is a Senior Lecturer of sport pedagogy in the Department of Sport & Leisure Studies at The University of Waikato. Clive’s research is informed from ethnographic perspectives and most recently he has developed a growing interest in visual research methods, particularly visual ethnography and photovoice to explore the sport experiences of young people.

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