20209 - Flesh and Blood Sociology: Ethnographic Practice Today

Description

In this panel, we delve into the practice and craft of ethnographic research through the doing of it, as a jazz musician studying jamming, a scholar of online hate, and an ethnographer in flux between the “seeing” and “saying” that forms ethnographic work. Ethnographic work has the advantage of taking the researcher close into the scene - in situ- and offers what Wacquant (2015) calls “carnal” vantage points. This carnal nearness can cut through the distance many forms of research introduce but also places responsibilities on the author of how to represent the nearness/otherness of the ethnographic relationship. We hope to discuss the craft, practice and possibilities of ethnography with other practitioners. Please join us.

Sub Unit

• Ethnography

Presider

• Melanie Z. Plasencia, Rutgers University-Newark

Individual Presentations

• Adults at Play: How Conflicting Interests Shape Musical Collaboration in Blues Jams - Jason B. Jimerson, Franklin College

• Ethnographic Paradox - Aaron Benavidez, Harvard University

• Those who hate us? Using self-reflexive situating as an ethnographic way of studying contentious topics online - Jonatan Mizrahi-Werner, University of Copenhagen

• What makes an ethnography “enactive”? Examining the boundaries between mainstream participant observation and carnal sociology - Brigid E. K. Burke, University of Ottawa

Discussant

• Kayla Preston, University of Toronto

Session Organizer

• Karla A. Erickson, Grinnell College