ISBN:
9781439910764
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (228 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography
DDC:
305.800723
Keywords:
Ethnologists
;
Ethnology -- Fieldwork
;
Work and family
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography exposes the intimate relationship between ethnographers as both family members and researchers. The contributors to this exciting volume question and problematize the "artificial divide" between work and family that continues to permeate writing on ethnographic field work as social scientists try to juggle research and family tensions while "on the job." Essays relate experiences that mirror work-family dilemmas that all employed parents face, and show how deeply personal experiences affect social scientists' home life a
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; I. Parenting and Fieldwork: Introduction; 1. Work and Home (Im)Balance: Finding Synergy through Ethnographic Fieldwork - Joanna Dreby and Tamara Mose Brown; 2. Theorizing the Field: Beyond Blurred Boundaries and into the Thick of Things - Barbara Katz Rothman; II. Experiences of the Expecting; 3. Sociological Pregnancy: On Gestating Research, Writing, and Offspring - Erynn Masi de Casanova; 4. Emerging Breasts, Bellies, and Bodies of Knowledge: How Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Matter in Fieldwork - Jennifer A. Reich; III. Managing Mothers
Description / Table of Contents:
5. The Intimate Ties between Work and Home - Joanna Dreby6. Motherhood and Transformation in the Field: Reflections on Positionality, Meaning, and Trust - Leah Schmalzbauer; 7. Parents and Children, Research and Family, Life and Loss: Living the Questions of Doing Ethnography - Chris Bobel; IV. Tentative Fathering; 8. Passing as a Parent: Playground Fieldwork in the Shadow of the World Trade Center - Gregory Smithsimon; 9. Making Up for Lost Time: My Son, My Fieldwork, My Life - Randol Contreras
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Kids Change Everything: How Becoming a Dad Transformed My Fieldwork (and Findings) - Charles Aiden DownyV. Challenging Children; 11. Fourteen Months, Four Countries, and Three Kids: Tales from the Field - Tanya Golash-Boza with Raymi Boza, Soraya Boza, and Tatiana Boza; 12. Reflections on Ethnographic Childhoods - Steven J. Gold; 13. "Just Don't Take Notes at Any of My Games or Do Anything Weird": Ethnography and Mothering across Adolescence - Sherri Grasmuck; Contributors; Index
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