Inside ethnography : researchers reflect on the challenges of reaching hidden populations /
edited by Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Going native with evil / Lost in the park: learning to navigate the unpredictability of fieldwork / Unearthing aggressive advocacy: challenges and strategies in social service ethnography / Going into the gray: conducting fieldwork on corporate misconduct / Hide-and-seek: challenges in the ethnography of street drug users / Into the epistemic void: using rapid assessment to investigate the opioid crisis / Conducting international reflexive ethnography: theoretical and methodological struggles / Hidden: accessing narratives of parental drug dealing and misuse / Navigating stigma: researching opioid and injection drug use among young immigrants from the former Soviet Union in New York City / Dangerous liaisons: reflections on a serial ethnography / The emotional labor of fieldwork with people who use methamphetamine / Ethnography of injustice: death at a county jail / Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard -- Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques -- Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson -- Eugene Soltes -- Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page -- Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, and Daniel Ciccarone -- Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, and Charles Kaplan -- Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo -- Honoria Guarino and Anastasia Teper -- Robert Gay -- Heith Copes -- Joshua Price
While some books present ""ideal"" ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society's margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their cutting-edge work with honesty and introspection, drawing readers into the field to reveal the challenges they have faced. Representing disciplinary approaches from criminology, sociology, anthropology, public health, business, and social work, and designed explicitly for courses on ethnographic and qualitative methods, crime, deviance, drugs