Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis

by Brown, Stephen Gilbert; Dobrin, Sidney I.

• ISBN13: 9780791460528
• ISBN10: 0791460525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
1. Introduction. New Writers of the Cultural Sage: From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical Praxis	1	(12)
Stephen Gilbert Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin
I. Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives
2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor	13	(22)
Bruce Horner
3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning	35	(18)
Mary Jo Reiff
4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies	53	(20)
Christopher Schroeder
5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical Ethnography	73	(26)
Gwen Gorzelsky
6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical Education	99	(16)
Lynée Lewis Gaillet
II. Place-Conscious Ethnographies: Situating Praxis in the Field
7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies	115	(16)
Robert Brooke and Charlotte Hogg
8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism?	131	(26)
John Sylvester Lofty
9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that "Makes a Difference"	157
Sharon McKenzie Stevens
III. The Nomadic Self: Reorganizing the Self in the Field
10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition Classroom	183	(18)
Susan S. Hanson
11. Unsituating the Subject: "Locating" Composition and Ethnography in Mobile Worlds	201	(18)
Christopher Keller
12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal	219	(22)
Janet Alsup
IV. Ethnographies of Cultural Change
13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and Representation	241	(18)
Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller
14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary	259	(26)
Lance Massey
V. Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices
15. The Ethics of Reading Critical Ethnography	285	(14)
Min-Zhan Lu
16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical Ethnography	299	(18)
Stephen Gilbert Brown
List of Contributors	317	(6)
Index	323