ABSTRACT
Ethnographic studies may be conducted by members of an environmental community or movement, as well as by those who identify as somehow "outside". They may be single-or multi-sited and last for various durations of time, ranging from a few hours to several years. They may involve a range of embodied participation practices, from interviewing to volunteering to working for an organization. This chapter summarizes ethical motivations and choices related not only to embodiment, but also voice, engagement, dialogue, and future trends. It organizes these themes by addressing autoethnography, participant observation, interviews, and emergent practices. Environmental justice movement leaders and scholars such as Bullard often defy rigid categories separating academics from those who are most impacted by environmental injustices. Multi-sited ethnographic studies of environmental justice are typically shorter term, but they use comparative observations to analyse the successes, challenges, and stakes of community activism circulated and diverged across ethnic, regional, national, and other cultural borders.
