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Practices of Writing in Ethnographic Work

2020

Although the practice of writing is key to the production of ethnographic knowledge, the topic remains understudied. Using material from our own ethnographic research in the fields of air travel and cultural heritage as data, we develop a reflexive account of ethnographic writing. We examine in detail the practices of jotting down observations, writing field notes, analytic annotating, ordering and rearranging, and drafting and revising papers. The article takes a praxeological stance, conceptualizing writing as a practice that is simultaneously cognitive, embodied, and material. Our analysis finds that writing influences and shapes all stages of ethnographic work, from orienting perception…

Racism and transnationality

2017

The social embeddedness of hydraulic engineers in the regulation of water and infrastructure in Peru

2019

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Majes-Colca watershed in Peru, this article explores some of the questions posed by Wittfogel regarding the management of hydraulic infrastructure and its eff...

Contesting Cultural Heritage: Decolonizing the Tropenmuseum as an Intervention in the Dutch/European Memory Complex

2019

AbstractThe chapter discusses how (post-)immigrant activism in the Netherlands currently impacts Dutch and European cultural heritage and their cultural archive and memory complex. The discussion focuses on the Tropenmuseum and the way postcolonial (post)immigrants carried out interventions there, resulting in new ways of visually and textually representing the colonial past. Though the end result is not a final ideal decolonized situation, it did evince de-essentializing processes in which intersectional perspectives are taken up. The interventions coincide with other national and international protests and processes, making it part of a project or movement that produces decolonial counter…

PCE, Santiago Carrillo: enero de 1977 o el giro sacrificial de la Transición

2016

La Transición española a la democracia ha sido objeto de uno de los más sólidos relatos construidos por el periodismo y refrendado por la sociedad civil. En su corazón tiene lugar un momento de violencia que se concentra en la llamada semana negra de enero de 1977, cuyo clímax está representado por la matanza de Atocha. El presente artículo analiza las distintas etapas de cristalización de ese relato: un capítulo de La Transición (Elías Andrés, Victoria Prego, 1995), Siete días de enero (J.A. Bardem, 1978), un reportaje de Interviú (febrero de 1977) y las crónicas periodísticas de El País, Diario16 y Mundo Obrero. Especial atención se presta a la figura de Santiago Carrillo, identificado co…

Le droit au travail sous le 'masque des mots' : les économistes français au combat en 1848

2006

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Who loves prescriptivism and why? Some aspects of language correctness in Latvia

2015

ABSTRACTTaking into account the crosscultural differences in prescriptive attitudes in various linguistic communities, a theory of three types of prescriptivism – human-oriented, language-oriented, and error-oriented prescriptivism – has been offered [Strelēvica-Osiņa, Dace. [2011] 2012. Kāpēc mēs gribam, lai valoda ir pareiza? Ieskats preskriptīvisma vēsturē, teorijā un praksē [Why Do We Want Language to Be Correct? An Insight into the History, Theory, and Practice of Prescriptivism]. Rīga: LU Latviesu valodas institūts]. This paper presents a synopsis of this theory, with the main emphasis on the situation of Latvia and the attitudes towards language correctness and correction in the Latv…

Connecting Polish families in Europe: changing dynamics in language and communication practices

2021

‘If you travel across Europe, the most useful language may be Polish’ ‘You Poles are everywhere!’ (some of the frequently heard comments and jokes addressed to Polish migrants)Polish migration to W...

Suffering as an anchor of critique. The place of critique in critical discourse studies

2017

If we engage in reflection on standards of critique, we are entering the terrain of metaethics, or the question of which ethical standards we should accept. The question is not only, in the sense o...

Sharing cultural knowledge at work: a study of chat interactions of an internationally dispersed team

2015

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan etnometodologisen jäsenkategorisoinnin analyysin avulla, kuinka kansainvälisesti hajautetun tiimin jäsenet jakavat kulttuurista tietoa Skype™ -keskusteluissaan. Tarkemmin katsotaan sitä, miten osallistujat luokittelevat itsensä ja muut tiimin jäsenet ’kulttuurisiksi tietäjiksi’ ja ’ei tietäjiksi’. Analyysissa havaittiin neljä tapaa, joilla tiimin jäsenet jakoivat tietoa samalla kun he hallinnoivat tehtävien jakelua ja suorittamista sekä rakensivat yhteisymmärrystä vuorovaikutuksessa. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat, että kulttuurinen tieto on dynaamisesti muuttuvaa, kontekstisidonnaista ja vuorovaikutuksessa rakentuvaa. Sen sijaan että kulttuurisuus haittais…