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Author:   Stephen Gilbert Brown ,  Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9780791460528

ISBN 10:   0791460525
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   26 February 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments 1. Introduction. New Writers of the Cultural Sage: From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical Praxis Stephen Gilbert Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin I. Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives 2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor Bruce Horner 3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning Mary Jo Reiff 4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies Christopher Schroeder 5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical Ethnography Gwen Gorzelsky 6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical Education Lynee Lewis Gaillet II. Place-Conscious Ethnographies: Situating Praxis in the Field 7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies Robert Brooke and Charlotte Hogg 8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism? John Sylvester Lofty 9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that ""Makes a Difference"" Sharon McKenzie Stevens III. The Nomadic Self: Reorganizing the Self in the Field 10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition Classroom Susan S. Hanson 11. Unsituating the Subject: ""Locating"" Composition and Ethnography in Mobile Worlds Christopher Keller 12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal Janet Alsup IV. Ethnographies of Cultural Change 13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and Representation Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller 14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary Lance Massey V. Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices 15. The Ethics of Reading Critical Ethnography Min-Zhan Lu 16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical Ethnography Stephen Gilbert Brown List of Contributors Index"

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Ethnography Unbound is a marvelously diverse collection of pieces that help us think carefully about ethical practices as we interview, analyze, interpret, and write about human behavior and teach our students to do likewise ... This volume offers ways to think about theory, argue that definitions and underlying assumptions, reflect on our research practices, and plan practical applications for our classrooms.

Author Information

Stephen Gilbert Brown is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and author of Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands, also published by SUNY Press. Sidney I. Dobrin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. He has published many books in composition theory, including the SUNY Press title, Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition, (coauthored with Christian R. Weisser).

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