Using Video-Cued Qi Ethnography in Research With Chinese Immigrant Mothers

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: Subverting Methodological Hegemony (Table 4)

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss the origin and the development of video-cued qi ethnography. I developed “video-cued qi ethnography” based on Tobin et al. (1989) and Kaomea et al.’s (2019) work on video-cued ethnography (VCE). Qi is a Chinese concept that means breath, spirit and life force. I draw on qi as 1) connectivity towards wholeness and 2) movement towards harmony to generate and analyze data that is interdependent and continuous. I explore what qi allows me to produce in my data collection and analysis and demonstrate how I use video-cued qi ethnography in practice in my research with Chinese immigrant mothers.

Author

• Eleanor Xiaoxiao Mehta, University of Georgia
  Presenting Author