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Critical Ethnography as Methodological Guide
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Critical Ethnography as Methodological Guide
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ABSTRACT
Critical ethnography is not a post-qualitative approach to research – its ontological roots are different – it is not limited to poststructuralist theories, it is not philosophy as method, and it is a planned and intentional methodological approach to research. All critical ethnography attends to power and relationalities, but researchers tend to take differing positions in terms of how they approach these. The self is embedded and entangled in the project from beginning to end, but the self is neither the focus of research questions nor the dominating narrative. Soyini Madison argues that “critical ethnography begins with an ethical responsibility to address processes of unfairness or injustice within a particular lived domain” Ethnographers can choose to reject the term data and instead talk about empirical materials, research materials, notes, writings, musings, qualitative materials, ethnographic evidence, poetry, art, stories, or many other terms that narrate our research performances and how people created them.