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Participant Observation: The Personal Commitment in Native Life—A Problematic Methodological Topos
2021
While it is well known that fieldwork started long before Malinowski, it is equally well known that the ethnographic method based on participant observation has been, since the 1920’s, taken as a foundation for anthropological research and for the scientific status of the knowledge acquired by its means. This essay has several purposes: highlighting some issues related to Malinowski’s theory and practice of research, which are full of implications not always grasped in their theoretical and methodological complexity; recalling some criticisms that have been put forward in the anthropological debate towards the notion of reflexive observation; discussing some uses and abuses of ethnographic …
Translingual Practices in Global Business : A Longitudinal Study of a Professional Communicative Repertoire
2018
This chapter draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of a Finnish engineer’s communicative repertoire that develops in the process of professional migration. The participant first works as a factory intern in Germany, then as a project engineer and project manager in Finland, and latterly as an operations manager in China. Here, repertoire is viewed through dynamic and flexible translingual practices, in which people follow, appropriate and invent norms, combine and shuttle between languages, ways of speaking, semiotic resources and modalities in the transnational work space in order to meet, interact, make meaning and build relationships and, ultimately, do their jobs. The data selected…
Developing Connective Pedagogy in Cultural Research—A Case Study from the Teachers’ Perspective in Adopting a Problem-Based Approach in Higher Educat…
2019
The article examines the challenges university teachers face when adopting connective pedagogy in organizing teaching. Instead of studying the learning outcomes of the method, we decided in this research to focus on the teachers&rsquo
Language Ideologies and Learning Historical Minority Languages
2015
Language ideologies surrounding the learning of historical minority languages deserve more/closer attention because due to the strong nation state ideology, the relation between majority and minority languages has long been problematic, and native speakers of majority languages do not typically learn the languages of the minorities voluntarily. This article discusses the language ideologies of voluntary learners of Swedish and Hungarian in two contexts where these languages are historical minority languages. Data was collected at evening courses in Oradea, Romania and Jyväskylä, Finland on which a qualitative analysis was conducted. In the analysis, an ethnographic and discourse analysis pe…
Before and after Science. Radcliffe-Brown e la questione dei rapporti tra metodi di ricerca sul campo, etnografia e teoria
2020
Nella prima parte del capitolo, mi occupo del periodo iniziale della carriera di Radcliffe-Brown che precede la pubblicazione, nel 1922, del suo celebre scritto, di carattere programmatico, su I metodi dell’etnologia e dell’antropologia sociale. Questo periodo di formazione è segnato dal rapporto con Haddon e Rivers, dalle due esperienze di ricerca sul campo nelle isole Andamane e tra gli aborigeni australiani, e dalla riflessione critica sul modello di scienza sociale proposto da Durkheim, riguardante in particolare le teorie formulate da quest’ultimo a proposito dei tipi di morfologia sociale e del ruolo di integrazione sociale svolto dalle credenze e dai rituali religiosi nelle “società …
Participant Observation: The Personal Commitment in Native Life—A Problematic Methodological Topos
2020
While it is well known that fieldwork started long before Malinowski, it is equally well known that the ethnographic method based on participant observation has been, since the 1920s, taken as a foundation for anthropological research and for the scientific status of the knowledge acquired by its means. This essay has several purposes: highlighting some issues related to Malinowski’s theory and practice of research, which are full of implications not always grasped in their theoretical and methodological complexity; recalling some criticisms that have been put forward in the anthropological debate toward the notion of reflexive observation; discussing some uses and abuses of ethnographic pr…
Poly-space
2020
Growing Up Transnationally between SWAPO and GDR—A Biographical Ethnographic Study on Namibian Refugee Children
2013
(2013). Growing Up Transnationally between SWAPO and GDR—A Biographical Ethnographic Study on Namibian Refugee Children. Transnational Social Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. M-28-M-33.
El tiempo en las clases de programación: ''Hacés y hacés y no te importa si tocó el timbre''
2021
A través de un estudio de caso en tres escuelas secundarias técnicas con orientación en programación se realizó una investigación cualitativa de corte etnográfica en la que se registraron los modos en que las y los estudiantes resuelven tareas de programación y organizan sus momentos de descanso. Recuperando las experiencias estudiantiles, se pudo observar cómo vivencian el tiempo cuando hay proyectos con desafíos cognitivos interesantes, en donde los cortes en su jornada escolar están fuertemente vinculados a la resolución de actividad escolar propuesta en vez de la estructura del horario escolar. Los recreos se ligan al sentido de la tarea, donde los descansos se vinculan a tres momentos …
The darkest spectrum of Republica de Cromañón, Argentina: an auto-ethnography on a post-disaster (traumatic) site
2020
The turn of the century has brought many dangerous and unseen risks for the tourist system. The methodological limitation of risk perception theory to make safer destinations has led towards a new paradigm where risk-management the pace to post-disaster consumption. The precautionary logic, which plays a leading role in the risk perception paradigm, is replaced by a type of morbid consumption (ipso facto) where adaptation is vital. Having said this, post-disaster tourism flourishes in a moment where the tourism industry -if not tourism epistemology- seems to be in crisis. The present paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of current post-disaster tourism research to unpack the pro…