Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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Against Resiliency: An Ethnographic Manifesto

Against Resiliency: An Ethnographic Manifesto

Using ethnography as an analytic tool to examine the concept of resiliency, we call for a shift in our practice and praxis. Research subjects and ethnographic practitioners are tired of working against and thriving despite. We are tired of being seen as resilient in a world that demands so much...

Putting the ‘Social’ Back in ‘Social Science’ Research

Putting the ‘Social’ Back in ‘Social Science’ Research

Remember the days when a main challenge of the EPIC community was convincing executives that humans weren’t just rational actors all the time? Back when arguing for the value of ethnographic research, thick data, and so forth, started with getting executives to realize that there was more to...