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The Lost Ethnographies

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Studies in Qualitative Methodology

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Studies in Qualitative Methodology Volume 17

The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were

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Robin James Smith

Cardiff University, UK

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Sara Delamont

Cardiff University, UK

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Contents

List of Contributors

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. His current interest is the work of artists and craft workers. His books include: Thinking Ethnographically (Sage, 2017), For Ethnography (Sage, 2014), Everyday Arias (AltaMira, 2006), Interactionism, co-authored with William Housley (Sage, 2003) and Key Themes in Qualitative Research, co-authored with Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont (AltaMira, 2003). Sara Delamont and himself were the Founding Editors of the journal Qualitative Research (Sage). He co-edited the Sage Handbook of Ethnography (2001). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Andrew Bartlett is a Sociologist of Science at the Universities of York and Sheffield, UK. He has published papers on psychiatric genetics, bioinformatics and public engagement, and is conducting research on epigenetics and gene editing. Perhaps relevant to a (lost) ethnography of Bigfoot, he has also written about the collectivities of ‘fringe’ physics.

David Calvey is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), UK. Prior to working at MMU he held teaching and research positions at the University of Manchester, Liverpool John Moores University, The Open University, in the UK, and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. His publications and research interests span ethnography, covert research, humour studies, martial arts, ethnomethodology, organisational creativity, interpersonal violence, private security and the night-time economy. He is a member of the British Sociological Association and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His recent book is Covert Research: The Art, Politics and Ethics of Undercover Fieldwork (Sage, 2017).

Sara Delamont, FAcSS, is a Reader Emerita in Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. She currently conducts fieldwork on capoeira, the Brazilian dance-fight game, and savate, the French kickboxing martial art. Her most recent book is Sara Delamont, Neil Stephens and Claudio Campos, Embodying Brazil: An Ethnography of Disasporic Capoeira (Routledge, 2017). Her previous books include Feminist Sociology (Sage, 2003), Key Themes in the Ethnography of Education (Sage, 2014) and Fieldwork in Education Settings (Third edition, Routledge, 2016). Together with Paul Atkinson she was Founding Editor of the journal Qualitative Research (Sage). She was one of the Editors of the Sage Handbook of Ethnography (Sage, 2001). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. She is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the British Sociological Association and the British Education Research Association.

Katie Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research and teaching are focussed on issues of health education, physical education and sexuality, as well as critical ethnographic and poetic methods. She is particularly concerned with the experiences of diverse youth in schools at the intersection of health, physicality, ethnicity, place, social class and gender/sexuality. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in these areas, as well as an international award-winning sole authored book Critical Pedagogy, Physical Education and Urban Schooling (Peter Lang, 2013). She has also co-edited an international collection on health education in schools (Health Education: Critical Perspectives, Routledge, 2014). Katie is currently a recipient of a five-year Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Martin Forsey is an Educational Sociologist/Anthropologist with particular interests in the social and cultural effects of schooling and tertiary education. An award-winning teacher, Martin has an abiding interest in the scholarship of teaching. He also has an extensive list of research publications including books on neoliberal reform of government schooling and school choice and a range of papers reflecting his interest in qualitative research methods, social change, schools and society and education and mobility. His profile also reflects a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research.

Sally Campbell Galman is a Professor of Child and Family Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA, and Co-Editor in Chief of Anthropology and Education Quarterly. As an anthropologist of childhood and a visual artist, her arts-based ethnographic research focusses on the study of childhood, gender and schooling, especially among young transgender or gender nonconforming children. Her ethnographic research has been supported by the Spencer Foundation. Her website is www.SallyCampbellGalman.com

Jamie Lewis is a Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. His research interests coalesce around the sociology of science and technology studies, public understanding of science and medical sociology. He has published papers on bioinformatics, psychiatric genetics, stem cell research and public engagement.

Dawn Mannay is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University, UK, with an interest in class, inequalities and education. She edited the collection Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales (University Wales Press, 2016) and authored Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics (Routledge, 2016). Her most recent edited book with Dr Tracey Loughran is titled Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships (Emerald, 2018).

Janean Robinson is a Research Associate at Murdoch University, Australia. She was a Secondary School Teacher for 30 years with the Western Australian Education Department before completing her master’s in Education on which her chapter is based. She continues to publish scholarly work that advocates for the social justice of teachers and students within government schools including her PhD, ‘Troubling’ Behaviour Management: Listening to Student Voice (2011), ‘Sent Out’ and Stepping Back In: Stories from Young People ‘Placed at Risk’ (2016) co-authored with John Smyth and Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say (Springer, 2018) co-authored with Barry Down and John Smyth.

Susie Scott is a Professor of Sociology the the University of Sussex, UK. She specialises in the microsociological perspectives of symbolic interactionism and dramaturgical theory, as applied to aspects of self-identity, social interaction and everyday life. Susie is the author of Shyness and Society (Palgrave, 2007), Making Sense of Everyday Life (Polity, 2009), Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities (Palgrave, 2011) and Negotiating Identity (Polity, 2015). She has also published articles on shyness, total institutions, mental disorder, performance art and swimming. Susie’s current research creates and develops a new area, the ‘sociology of nothing’ (Routledge, 2019).

Robin James Smith is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University, UK, where he teaches sociology, ethnomethodology and qualitative methods. His research interests coalesce around a concern with mundane and professional interactions and practices in public space and, more recently, mountainous areas. He has published a number of articles from an ethnographic study of outreach work with rough sleepers, on qualitative research methodology and studies of membership categorisation practices. He is currently Editor of Qualitative Research.

Katy Vigurs is an Associate Professor of Career and Higher Education at the International Centre for Guidance Studies, which is based in the University of Derby, UK. Prior to this, she was an Associate Professor of Professional and Higher Education at Staffordshire University, UK. She is an experienced social researcher, with an interest in educational inequalities and social justice, particularly in relation to the context of higher education and graduate employment. She was an Elected Convenor of the British Educational Research Association’s Social Justice special interest group between 2013 and 2016. She has carried out research projects funded by the Office for Students, the Sutton Trust, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Department for Education, The Careers and Enterprise Company, the Gatsby Foundation, HEFCE, OFFA and the Society for Research into Higher Education.