- Advanced Praise for The Oxford Handbook of <i>Methods for Public Scholarship</i>
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction to <i>The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship</i>
- The 21st-Century Academic Landscape: from a disciplinary to a transdisciplinary model
- Public Scholarship, Public Intellectuals, and the Role of Higher Education in a Time of Crisis
- Composing an Undivided Life as an Activist/Scholar: methods for practicing engaged social movement scholarship
- Ethical Issues Working with Vulnerable Populations
- Ethical Challenges Community-Based Researchers and Community-Based Organizations Face: can we still work together?
- The Impossible Task of Community Art Practice: a methodological micro-guide for seven young chicagoans
- For the Sake of Humanity: research on cross-cultural collaborative arts for public health
- (Un)Settling Imagined Lands: a par/des(i) approach to de/colonizing methodologies
- Disaster Research: past, present, and future
- Interviews: using conversations in public scholarship
- Public Ethnography
- Oral History, the Public Record, and the Story
- Literature and Creative Writing as Public Scholarship
- Health TheatRe: embodying research
- Narrative Film as Public Scholarship
- Visual Art Campaigns
- Cellphilms in Public Scholarship
- Online, Asynchronous Data Collection in Qualitative Research
- #spacesforknowledgeproduction
- Public Scholarship Goes Online: email as method
- Audience and Voice (and Sometimes Reflexivity)
- Creative Nonfiction in Qualitative Inquiry
- Writing Collaboratively
- Academic Blogs
- Academics Writing for a Broader Public Audience
- Generating Publicity and Engaging with the Media to Promote Academic Research
- Grant Writing as a Creative Process: methods from brainstorming to project building, management, and completion
- Growing the Revolutionary Intellectual, Creating the Counterpublic Sphere
- A Brief Statement on the Future of Public Scholarship and the Research Methods Landscape
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In the past few decades, some ethnographers have approached going public with their ethnographic research. In particular, they began to investigate problems of significant interest, conduct fieldwork in everyday settings, and use both form and dissemination to engage nonacademic audiences. In this chapter, the authors discern characteristics of public ethnography and doing ethnography in public settings. They begin by defining “public ethnography” and illustrating the need to record happenings of contexts that cannot be easily captured with other research methods. They then discuss practices of always being in the field, observing others, taking notes, attending to everyday conversations, monitoring social media, synthesizing ideas, identifying injustices, and engaging extant research. They conclude by identifying considerations for crafting and disseminating representations of fieldwork for public, nonacademic audiences.
Keywords: public ethnography, observations, field research, ethnography, fieldwork, nonacademic audiences, qualitative research, qualitative inquiry, qualitative methods, public scholarship
Tony E. Adams Bradley University Peoria, IL, USA
Robin M. Boylorn University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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- Advanced Praise for The Oxford Handbook of <i>Methods for Public Scholarship</i>
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction to <i>The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship</i>
- The 21st-Century Academic Landscape: from a disciplinary to a transdisciplinary model
- Public Scholarship, Public Intellectuals, and the Role of Higher Education in a Time of Crisis
- Composing an Undivided Life as an Activist/Scholar: methods for practicing engaged social movement scholarship
- Ethical Issues Working with Vulnerable Populations
- Ethical Challenges Community-Based Researchers and Community-Based Organizations Face: can we still work together?
- The Impossible Task of Community Art Practice: a methodological micro-guide for seven young chicagoans
- For the Sake of Humanity: research on cross-cultural collaborative arts for public health
- (Un)Settling Imagined Lands: a par/des(i) approach to de/colonizing methodologies
- Disaster Research: past, present, and future
- Interviews: using conversations in public scholarship
- Public Ethnography
- Oral History, the Public Record, and the Story
- Literature and Creative Writing as Public Scholarship
- Health TheatRe: embodying research
- Narrative Film as Public Scholarship
- Visual Art Campaigns
- Cellphilms in Public Scholarship
- Online, Asynchronous Data Collection in Qualitative Research
- #spacesforknowledgeproduction
- Public Scholarship Goes Online: email as method
- Audience and Voice (and Sometimes Reflexivity)
- Creative Nonfiction in Qualitative Inquiry
- Writing Collaboratively
- Academic Blogs
- Academics Writing for a Broader Public Audience
- Generating Publicity and Engaging with the Media to Promote Academic Research
- Grant Writing as a Creative Process: methods from brainstorming to project building, management, and completion
- Growing the Revolutionary Intellectual, Creating the Counterpublic Sphere
- A Brief Statement on the Future of Public Scholarship and the Research Methods Landscape
- Index
