Diffractive ethnography : social sciences and the ontological turn
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Diffractive ethnography : social sciences and the ontological turn
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Across intellectual disciplines, the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics, the turn invites us to think about intra-actions and assemblages of human and nonhuman entities.
This raises epistemological questions about how we know about the world, and spotlights some of the problems with how we currently do conventional social science research. Diffractive Ethnography invites social scientists to consider alternate methodologies that account for the complexity of human behavior situated in larger environmental contexts.
For both novice and experienced researchers, this thought-provoking book opens new ways of thinking about methodology and raises questions about the ethical and justice orientations of our work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Engaging the Ontological Turn
Chapter 1. A Turn from What?
Chapter 2. An Overview of Vibrant Materialism
Chapter 3. Paradigm Changes
Part II: Methodological Contradictions in Social Science Inquiry
Chapter 4. Objectivity in Research
Chapter 5. Instruments of Measurement
Chapter 6. Beyond Cause and Effect
Chapter 7. Zombie Categories
Chapter 8. Data
Chapter 9. The Crisis of Representation
Chapter 10. Reflexivity and Its Discontents
Part III: Diffractive Ethnography
Chapter 11. A Brief Overview of Ethnography
Chapter 12. Thinking with Theory
Chapter 13. Assemblages and Entanglements
Chapter 14. Diffraction
Chapter 15. The Liveliness of Matter
Part IV: Becoming
Chapter 16. Healing the Nature/Culture Divide
Chapter 17. The Ethics of Entanglements
References
Index
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