Collaborative Ethnography With Social Movements: Key Dimensions and Challenges

Abstract: In this article, I explore collaborative ethnography as a means to bridge theory and practice, knowledge and action, in social movement research, and to produce knowledge that is relevant and useful for both the academic and the non-academic public. For this purpose, I will present a group of interconnected dimensions and challenges that shape the practice of research collaboration with social movements: a situated, artisanal and experimental ethos regarding method and outcomes; elements of shared authority, co-decision, co-analysis, and co-theorization in fieldwork; the decentered role of scholars; the tension between academic and extra-academic relevance; the link between trust, access, and collaboration; epistemic and methodological questions of writing and representation; the significance of time for weaving and sustaining collaboration; and the ways in which the actors involved relate to knowledge-practices and theory production. These eight dimensions illustrate how ethnograp.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3908

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Collaborative Ethnography With Social Movements: Key Dimensions and Challenges ; volume:23 ; number:3 ; day:30 ; month:09 ; year:2022 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 23, Heft 3 (30.09.2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Arribas Lozano, Alberto

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-23.3.3908
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022100420224406791762
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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