Ethnography & Methodology Books

New and Published Books

1. Migration in the 21st Century

   Political Economy and Ethnography

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Builders

   Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry

   By Darren Thiel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

   Edited by Sheena Gardner, Marilyn Martin-Jones

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post-structuralist perspectives on social life. Second,...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. City, Street and Citizen

   The Measure of the Ordinary

   By Suzanne Hall

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts,...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Beyond Methodological Nationalism

   Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Devrimsel D. Nergiz, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens has also grown. This book revisits drawbacks of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

   Researching Educational Inequalities

   Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

   This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia

   The inalienable gift of territory

   By Cynthia Chou

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Dirty Dancing

   An Ethnography of Lap Dancing

   By Rachela Colosi

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Based on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of lap-dancing. As well as the relationships between dancers, the author offers a unique insider's account of...

   Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Max Weber

   Collected Methodological Writings

   Edited by Hans Henrik Bruun, Sam Whimster

   Series: Weber in Translation

   Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today....

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Ferry Tales

    Mobility, Place, and Time on Canada's West Coast

    By Phillip Vannini

    Series: Innovative Ethnographies

    The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and reflects on the performance of travel and...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge