- Title
- Critical ethnography
- Creator
- Nyberg, Daniel; Delaney, Helen
- Relation
- Critical Management Research: Reflections from the Field p. 63-80
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446288610
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Doing ethnographic work can be both a triumphant and tumultuous experience. The ethnographer often moves between feeling inspired, bored, awkward, humble, respectful, frustrated, and even hurt. In short, ‘the ethnographer who becomes immersed in other people's realities is never quite the same afterward’ (Reeves Sanday, 1979: 527). In this chapter, we are interested in not only how and why ethnographies can change the researcher, but also how critically orientated ethnographic research can alter and influence the research participants, the setting, and ultimately the research community. We argue that most ethnographies have, consciously or not, political impacts and that critical management researchers are equipped with important theoretical lenses to reflect upon this impact. Through acknowledging and exploring the political role, influence, and interests of ethnographic fieldwork, we hope that critical management researchers will be better prepared and reflective about the complicated nature and progressive potential of doing ethnographic work.
- Subject
- ethnography; critical ethnography; research; influence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1423308
- Identifier
- uon:37915
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781446257432
- Language
- eng
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