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Patchwork Ethnography: A Methodological Guide

Patchwork Ethnography: A Methodological Guide

Günel, Gökçe
Watanabe, Chika

Paperback

Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 12, 2027

ISBN10: 0226845311
ISBN13: 9780226845319
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Feb 12 2027
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

Offers an accessible new way to think critically and transparently about how researchers, especially those doing ethnographic work, can balance their personal commitments with long-term research.

For ethnographers, spending a year or longer in a faraway place conducting fieldwork is becoming increasingly untenable due to competing life responsibilities and rising workloads, as well as disability, precarity, and geopolitical factors. If ethnographic methods are to remain relevant and viable for a diverse group of people in anthropology and beyond, Gökçe Günel and Chika Watanabe argue, we need to examine how our personal and professional lives intersect and shape one another.

In Patchwork Ethnography, Günel and Watanabe take seriously the conditions that render long-term fieldwork difficult for so many. Without being prescriptive, the book offers concrete ways for scholars to unpack the competing commitments in their lives and make those challenges feel more manageable. Blending theoretical analysis with practical exercises, the authors guide readers to rethink the relationship between their personal lives and their scholarship. Ultimately, they point to ways for transforming limitations into catalysts for fresh insights. By highlighting how shifting labor and living conditions profoundly alter knowledge production, Patchwork Ethnography calls for a paradigm shift in ethnographic research.

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