Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis

ETHNOGRAPHY UNBOUND......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
1. Introduction: New Writers of the Cultural Sage From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical Praxis by STEPHEN GILBERT BROWN and SIDNEY I. DOBRIN......Page 14
PART I: Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives......Page 24
2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor by BRUCE HORNER......Page 26
3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning by MARY JO REIFF......Page 48
4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies by CHRISTOPHER SCHROEDER......Page 66
5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical Ethnography by GWEN GORZELSKY......Page 86
6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical Education by LYNÉE LEWIS GAILLET......Page 112
PART II: Place-Conscious Ethnographies: Situating Praxis in the Field......Page 126
7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies by ROBERT BROOKE and CHARLOTTE HOGG......Page 128
8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism? by JOHN SYLVESTER LOFTY......Page 144
9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that “Makes a Difference” by SHARON McKENZIE STEVENS......Page 170
PART III: The Nomadic Self: Reorganizing the Self in the Field......Page 194
10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition Classroom by SUSAN S. HANSON......Page 196
11. Unsituating the Subject: “Locating” Composition and Ethnography in Mobile Worlds by CHRISTOPHER KELLER......Page 214
12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal by JANET ALSUP......Page 232
PART IV: Ethnographies of Cultural Change......Page 252
13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and Representation by BRONWYN T. WILLIAMS and MARY BRYDON-MILLER......Page 254
14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary by LANCE MASSEY......Page 272
PART V: Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices......Page 296
15. The Ethics of Reading Critical Ethnography by MIN-ZHAN LU......Page 298
16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical Ethnography by STEPHEN GILBERT BROWN......Page 312
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 330
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