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Ethnography Workshop with Georgina Born

Ethnographic research has become one of the most fashionable research methods in the humanities and social sciences. But it is also misunderstood. In this workshop we look at a number of central issues in ethnographic research, from theoretical, epistemological and ethical questions to practical challenges to do with how to go about ethnographic fieldwork. We consider: what does it mean to carry out ethnographic research? How can it be done rigorously? How can it be defended against accusations that it is an entirely subjective engagement with the object of research? Is reflexivity a panacea for such criticisms?

This workshop is aimed at students in the humanities and the arts who would like to integrate ethnographic methods into their research and creative activities.

Lunch provided (vegetarian and non-vegetarian options). RSVP here.

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Article by G. Born on ethnography of culture (recommended reading)

Georgina Born is an anthropologist and musician who uses ethnography to study cultural production, particularly music, television and information technologies, and is a leading exponent both of institutional ethnography and of anthropology's application to the critical study of Western modernity. In relation to music, television and IT her work has ranged from studies of cultural production and cultural politics, to intellectual property, authorship and subjectivity, to materiality, technology and mediation. She is an international authority on computer music and musical modernism in the twentieth century, and also on contemporary media policy, the BBC and public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Europe.

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