ABSTRACT
The methodological approach adopted for critical ethnography overcame the problems arising from the nominalism of conventional ethnography by incorporating ethnographic methods of data collection into a dialectical analysis, while sharing the conventional ethnographical concern with uncovering facts and meanings through observing human experience. The monological/dialogical distinction has been usefully conceptualized as one between the researcher as miner and traveler. This conception of the researcher as dialogical traveller is also one that aptly describes the way that the author investigated the social movement through travelling within the UK and mainland Europe. The relatively low level of economic and social struggles and the particular political situation vis--vis the European Union (EU) meant that UK organisations and activists played a relatively minor part in the European Marches. The ideologue, identifies closely with particular social struggles and political forces and therefore is unable to assess objectively their social and political significance and thereby aid their development.
