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Overview"This collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an ""ethnography of the centre"" - the study of cultural orders in the heart of the metropolis. In a field where it is more common to study the other rather than the self, the low rather than the high, the peripheral rather than the central, Michael Rosen instead took as his subject the complex, frenzied and interrelated occupational worlds of finance and advertising that create, channel and trade in the currencies of meaning that sustain and animate the cultural economy of the metropolis and the lives of its residents. This collage of images, insights, stories, analysis and reflection gives the reader a taste of what ethnography can accomplish when directed at the citadels of power rather than its outposts." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael RosenPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.521kg ISBN: 9789058231017ISBN 10: 9058231011 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 21 December 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsOrganizational ethnography: coming to terms with the field - understanding and doing organizational ethnography; breakfast at Spiro's - dramaturgy and dominance; you asked for it - Christmas at the bosses' expense. Ecological ethnography: crashing in '87 - power and symbolism in the Dow; staying on the string - the Yo and the market in eight-nine; building bridges and living lives - a critique of bureaucracy, ideology and concrete artifacts. Contingent knowledge: there to here and no way back - the late life of a cocaine dealer; scholars, travellers, thieves - on concept, method and cunning in organizational ethnography.ReviewsIt is a collection in which both text and subtext speak to the possibilities and difficulties of ethnographic practice and its inextricably tied promise and pitfalls. And together, in the light they cast upon each other, they produce what should be the ultimate goal of good ethnography: multilayered, evocative stories that ring of truth. -Gideon Kunda of Universities of Stanford and Tel Aviv Rosen's writing style anticipated and illustrates recent attention to writing practices, including narrative as method....his writing challenges the boundary between social science and fiction. -Dvora Yanow of California State University It is a collection in which both text and subtext speak to the possibilities and difficulties of ethnographic practice and its inextricably tied promise and pitfalls. And together, in the light they cast upon each other, they produce what should be the ultimate goal of good ethnography: multilayered, evocative stories that ring of truth. <br>-Gideon Kunda of Universities of Stanford and Tel Aviv <br> Rosen's writing style anticipated and illustrates recent attention to writing practices, including narrative as method....his writing challenges the boundary between social science and fiction. <br>-Dvora Yanow of California State University <br> Author InformationRosen, Michael Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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