“I know it’s not ethnography!”: Reimagining Ethnographic Research and Training beyond Writing Culture

DURBIN, Trevor (KSU) “I know it’s not ethnography!”:  Reimagining Ethnographic Research and Training beyond  Writing Culture. While critiques of ethnographic methods  abound, the primacy of scholarly norms for ethnography  have persisted. Many professionals who use ethnographic  methods, however, may never write ethnography but instead  use ethnographic research for other purposes. As a result, the  practice of ethnographic research, on one hand, and methods  training and publication standards, on the other, have diverged.  Although a well-known problem in some circles, more  explicit attention is needed to the limits and possibilities of  ethnographic research that is intentionally emancipated from  ethnography as a genre of representation. This panel considers  these limits and possibilities of ethnographic research beyond  writing culture. [e-mail] (TH-48)