Anthropology: Ethnography & Methodology

By Ashley ML Brown

Role-playing games offer a chance to pretend, make believe, and share fantasy. They often invoke heavy themes into their game play: morality, violence, politics, spirituality, or sexuality. Although interesting moral debates perennially appear in the media and academia concerning the…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Game Studies

Edited by Emilie Crossley, David Picard

Drawing from ethnographic work in five continents, this book demonstrates how different regimes of value in tourism can coexist, collide, and compete across a varied geographic terrain. Much theory in tourism economics defines ‘value’ as a measure of monetary worth, a concept governing commodity…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
Routledge

Edited by Maruška Svašek

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, migration studies, human geography and political science, the authors offer interdisciplinary…

Paperback – 2017-06-07
Routledge

By Stephen Hester, Peter Eglin

Hester and Eglin’s A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and…

Paperback – 2017-05-11
Routledge

Edited by Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina

Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times is written from the perspective that the scholarly lives of academics are changing, constantly in flux, and increasingly bound to the demands of the market – a context in which the university has increasingly morphed into a business enterprise, one that…

Paperback – 2017-04-05
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International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Series

By Kakali Bhattacharya

This book is the road map to proficiency and development in the field of qualitative research. Borrowing from a wealth of experience teaching introductory qualitative research courses, author Kakali Bhattacharya lays out a dynamic program for learning different paradigms of inquiry, empowering…

Paperback – 2017-03-16
Routledge

By Anthony Ellis

Why do some men use physical violence against others? How do some men come to value physical violence as a resource? Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research conducted with men involved in serious violence and crime over a period of two years in the North of England, Anthony Ellis addresses these…

Paperback – 2017-03-14
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Edited by Gyozo Molnar, Laura Purdy

Ethnography has become an important method for researching and interpreting the social world, not least in the field of sport and exercise studies. Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research is the first book to provide a contemporary overview of the current state of ethnographic research and its…

Paperback – 2017-02-07
Routledge

Edited by Fred Dervin, Karen Risager

This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and…

Paperback – 2017-02-06
Routledge

By Stephen Andrew

This volume is a call for integrity in autoethnographic research. Stephen Andrew weaves together philosophy, critical theory, and extended self-reflections to demonstrate how and why qualitative researchers should assess the ethical quality of their work. He also offers practical tools designed to…

Paperback – 2017-01-20
Routledge
Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, Genevieve Bell

With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital…

Hardback – 2016-12-15
Routledge
Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions

By Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush, David Epston

This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound…

Paperback – 2016-12-12
Routledge
Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives