Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

Ethnography involves material and social interventions to create a site for epistemic collaboration, using fieldwork devices like coproduced books, data circulation, and co-organized events. It replaces traditional fieldwork tropes with a narrative of intervention and emphasizes the aesthetics of collaboration in knowledge production. The book proposes the concept of "experimental collaborations" to describe this distinctive ethnographic modality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 236 pages
Publication date: 17 September 2021
Publisher: Berghahn Books

Ethnography is a research method that involves material and social interventions to create a site for epistemic collaboration. Anthropologists engage with their counterparts in the field through creative interventions such as coproduced books, circulated data, co-organized events, authorization protocols, relational frictions, and social rhythms. These interventions transform the traditional tropes of fieldwork encounters, which typically involve immersion and distance, into a narrative of intervention. The aesthetics of collaboration in the production of knowledge become central, and participant observation is often intertwined with this process. The book introduces the concept of "experimental collaborations" to describe and conceptualize this distinctive ethnographic modality.

Weight: 344g
Dimension: 151 x 227 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800730151