Ethnographic Worldviews ― Transformations and Social Justice

This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understand many of the current issues and concerns—with specific exemplars from around the globe—for ethnographers. 'Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice' will have its "finger on the pulse" of contemporary ethnography. Chapters demonstrate up-to-the-moment awareness of ethnographic methods, concerns, and subject matters within contemporary ethnographic writing. Authors are deeply engaged in both their subject matter and their method. For example, discussion of ethical issues surrounding visual methods of "collecting" for photo-ethnographies is anticipated as a potential hot topic for this book. Unlike other ethnographic books which often suggest "giving voice to others", this book will actually give voice to a wide variety of perspectives, from the points of view of researchers.

Robert Rinehart is an Associate Professor in Sport & Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He is the author of Players All: Performances in Contemporary Sport (Indiana University Press, 1998), and co-editor, with Synthia Sydnor, of To the Extreme: Alternative Sport, Inside and Out (SUNY Press, 2003), and is currently working on a book examining sport, business, education, and peace. He is also convenor for the Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines biennual conference (cead.org.nz).

Karen Nicole Barbour is a senior lecturer in dance and choreography at the University of Waikato. She is committed to fostering qualitative dance research, specifically in choreographic practice, contemporary dance, improvisation, site-specific dance, and digital dance. She has recently published Dancing across the page: Narrative and embodied ways of knowing (2011). Her current research interests lie in collaborative artistic research, feminist choreographic practices, and narrative writing practices to express lived experiences.

Clive Pope is a Senior Lecturer of sport pedagogy in the Department of Sport & Leisure Studies at The University of Waikato. Clive’s research is informed from ethnographic perspectives and most recently he has developed a growing interest in visual research methods, particularly visual ethnography and photovoice to explore the sport experiences of young people.