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This book emphasises the central place that ethnographic work should have in the formulation and evaluation of education policy. Ethnographic studies contribute to a greater understanding of the process formulation, evaluation and critique. First, careful studies of policy initiatives at the local level can show the extent to which change actually occurs in practice. Second, ethnographic studies can investigate the unintended consequences as well as those planned by the policy. Third, ethnography can investigate the effects of policies in such a way that contradictions within the original policy itself are illuminated. As well as studying the effects and impact of policy, ethnography can also be useful in the formulation of new policies. The various chapters gathered together here give many examples of the ways that ethnography can trace the effects of particular policy developments and may be able to influence future policy debates. The contributors and case studies relate to several countries including the United States, Italy, England, France, Sweden and Switzerland, showing not only that ethnographic research in education is now widespread, but also increasing relevance to policy.

This article calls attention to the productive intersection of various postcriticisms of knowledge production and the critique of ethnography as a writing technology for producing scientific knowledge about others. In particular, poststructural and deconstructive criticism, cultural studies, feminist science studies, postcolonial theory, and queer theory are seen to have focused disruptive and useful attention on the ethnographic I/eye, both inside and outside the professional academic texts of human science. A radical or full reflexivity is seen to be particularly useful in this attention to the one who sees, knows, and writes, but this reflexivity has been criticized by feminist technoscience critic Donna Haraway for being in fact too timid. A consideration of Haraway's preferred strategy based on the metaphor of diffraction, which seeks to effect difference patterns in the local worlds where ethnography is done, closes the article.

Ethnography at Work follows the experiences of the author as a participant observer in the day-to-day running of a Japanese advertising agency. The book reveals the intricate behind-the-scenes planning, discussion, negotiations and strategies needed to ensure that the agency's presentation to a potential client will be preferred over that of a rival firm. The book shows how detailed ethnography can lead to an understanding of numerous different, but interlocking, theoretical issues. It demonstrates how ethnography can travel beyond the academic realm and be used by business personnel to heighten their understanding of their companies' organizational structures, strategies and daily work practices. Asking crucial questions about the role of the anthropologist in the field, Ethnography at Work introduces students to ways in which anthropologists study social systems in business.

"Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research Sarah Pink uses real world examples to bring this innovative area of study to life. She encourages us to challenge, revise and rethink core components of ethnography including interviews, participant observation and doing research in a digital world. The book provides an important framework for thinking about sensory ethnography which stresses the numerous ways that smell, taste, touch and vision can be interconnected and interrelated within research. Bursting with practical advice on how to effectively conduct and share sensory ethnography this is an important, original book."--Page 4 of cover

By its very nature ethnography is an emergent methodology. To be ethical the ethnographer needs to manage research ethics in-situ. This need to manage ethical dilemmas as they arise often comes into conflict with increased ethical regulation and procedures from ethics review boards that require the researcher to foresee ethical quandaries before data collection commences. These regulations can constrain the emerging purpose of the study, evolving means of data collection and multifaceted ways of interacting with participants that are seen as being the strengths of undertaking an ethnographic approach. The chapters in this volume problematise this tension and highlight the importance of managing ethics in-situ by reflecting on recently completed and current projects drawing out ethical dilemmas relating to data ownership, dissemination, representation, social justice and managing ethnographic studies in the midst of a global pandemic and Covid-19 lockdowns. Reflecting on these experiences of doing educational ethnography with children and young people, drawing on a diverse range of studies conducted in England, Scotland, South America, India, and the Basque Country, this volume argues that administrative and conceptual change is needed to ensure that ethics does not become a tick box exercise but that ethnographers commit fully to conscientiously managing ethics in-situ.

Explores what ethnology can achieve in educational research. This book features: discussion of definitions of ethnography and its potential for use within educational research; introductions to the principal approaches to ethnography; discussions of data analysis and representation and of the challenges facing ethnography; and more.

"Written by one of the best Criminological Ethnographers in the business, this text will serve as an invaluable and insightful resource for both novice and seasoned ethnographers of criminological issues." - Anthony Ellis, University of Salford In the first textbook to cover ethnography specific to criminology, James Treadwell guides readers through the ethnographic research process in full, starting with a background to criminological ethnography, through planning and doing an ethnographic project, and finally, the writing up and reporting stage. The book provides guidance for navigating key issues in ethnography, including access and researcher safety, and supports readers when carrying out their project with helpful exercises, questions and checklists. It also includes insightful case studies comprised of classic works and the author's own ethnographic projects, along with a range of extra learning features including key terms, a glossary, and further reading suggestions. A valuable resource for anyone embarking on ethnographic research in criminology for the first time.

About the contributors -- Doing organizational ethnography / Anne Reff Pedersen and Didde Marie Humle -- Studies of strategy, conflict, and branding in nonprofit and private organizations -- Everyday conflict at work : an organizational sensemaking ethnography -- Elisabeth naima mikkelsen and discussant barbara gray -- Doing strategy : a performative organizational ethnography / Marie Mathiesen and discussant Chrahrazad Abdullah -- Examining branding in organizations by using critical organizational ethnography / Sanne Frandsen and discussant Dan Karreman -- Knowledge organizations and studies of everyday work -- A web of work-life stories : a narrative organizational ethnography / Didde Marie Humle and discussant David M. Boje -- The logic of nursing work : an organizational ethnography of practice / Jette Ernst and discussant Davide Nicolini -- Contexting the patient : a meeting ethnography of patient involvement in quality development / Mette Brehm Johansen and discussant Anne Reff Pedersen -- Public organizations studies of management and collaborative innovation -- Meaning negotiations of collaborative governance : a discourse-based ethnography / Mie Plotnikov and discussant Danielle Zandee -- Leadership of collaborative innovation in the public sector : an engaged-scholarship ethnography / Jesper Rohr Hansen and discussant Steven Griggs -- Montage ethnography : editing and co-analyzing voices from the field / Morten Arnfred and discussant Mike Rowe -- Index

Ethnography at the worldly edge / Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Rachael Stryker, and Christos Varvantakis -- Biopedagogy and school-based social reform via Waldorf (Steiner) education : the ethnographic importance of paradox / Elisa J. Sobo -- Ethnographer, interrupted : revisitation as worldly ethnography / Rachael Stryker -- Minting worlds : economic minors tracing money in a 'Global' Financial Crisis / Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, and Vinnarasan Aruldoss -- Data ethnography : doing multimodal ethnography in a data and AI-driven world / Veronica Barassi -- Ethnographic filmmaking for understanding peacebuilding : a multisited and multimodal approach / Colleen Alena O'Brien -- The affective resonance of violent acts : doing ethnography on a risky planet / Joshua McNamara -- A translocal ethnography with survivors of human trafficking : a sensorial, hyperlink cinema narrative / runa lazzarino -- The poetics of resonance : worldly ethnography as empathic and aesthetic attendance / Simone Toji -- The seeing body and the feeling eye / Michele A. Feder-Nadoff -- Looking for the margin : an ethnography of gradualness / Jasamin Kashanipour.