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When Professors Become Transgressors: A Hybrid Auto/Ethnography A Posteriori

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research
Transgressions—those social or criminal, norm-violating behaviors, identities, beliefs, or conditions—are ubiquitous. Humans are somehow deviant, both as norm transgressors and as norm maintainers, in every social realm, including academia.
Shalaleh Meraji Oskuie
doaj   +1 more source

PLAYING WITH PREFIGURATION: Ludic Spaces and Prefigurative Organizing for Children's Right to the Mobile City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
wiley   +1 more source

auto-differentiation/xad: v1.5.2

open access: yes
<h2>What's Changed</h2> <p>This is a patch release after factoring out the Python bindings, to get the versioning consistent with the xad-py repository.</p> <ul> <li>Updated naming of QuantLib-Risks by @auto ...
Auto Differentiation Dev Team   +4 more
core   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Home and Away: Self-Reflexive Auto/Ethnography

open access: yes, 2005
Studying the unknown involves leaving the familiar. Leaving is prerequisite to transcending self and society, whether studying a far-away culture or the neighborhood culture. However, leaving also enables a different and deeper understanding of what we left at home.
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring tensionless ethnography

open access: yes, 2019
The article attempts to elucidate tensionless ethnography against the backdrop of three contemporary processes: STS ethnography, innovation policies, and the Mode 2 society.
Friberg, Torbjörn
core  

Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
wiley   +1 more source

Arctic Auto-Ethnography: Unsettling Colonial Research Relations

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter discusses how auto-ethnography can provide reflections and tools that are useful in breaking with the tradition of hit-and-run research, experienced as problematic and neocolonial in Arctic communities.
Graugaard, Naja Dyrendom; id_orcid
core  

Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond one voice Co-constructed analytic auto-ethnography

open access: yes, 2018
Steve Kempster and Ken Parry introduce an unconventional research design and data collection method called co-constructed analytic auto-ethnography. This is based on a collaborative partnership between researcher and participant.
Steve Kempster   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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