TY - JOUR
T1 - Proxy-produced ethnographic work
T2 - what are the problems, issues, and dilemmas arising from proxy-ethnography?
AU - Martinussen, Marie
AU - Højbjerg, Karin
AU - Tamborg, Andreas Lindenskov
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - This article addresses the implications of researcher-student cooperation in the production of empirical material. For the student to replace the experienced researcher and work under the researcher’s supervision, we call such work proxy-produced ethnographic work. Although there are clear advantages, the specific relations and positions arising from such a set-up between the teacher/researcher and the proxy ethnographer/student are found to have implications for the ethnographies produced. This article’s main focus is to show how these relations and positions have shifted the focus of the ethnographic work and in some way have distorted the ethnographies in certain ways. It is shown how the participating researchers have distinctive, incorporated dispositions with which they pre-consciously participate in an implicit and subtle relation that can make it easy to overlook the distortions during the research process. These ethnographic distortions are generated within a framework drawn primarily on the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
AB - This article addresses the implications of researcher-student cooperation in the production of empirical material. For the student to replace the experienced researcher and work under the researcher’s supervision, we call such work proxy-produced ethnographic work. Although there are clear advantages, the specific relations and positions arising from such a set-up between the teacher/researcher and the proxy ethnographer/student are found to have implications for the ethnographies produced. This article’s main focus is to show how these relations and positions have shifted the focus of the ethnographic work and in some way have distorted the ethnographies in certain ways. It is shown how the participating researchers have distinctive, incorporated dispositions with which they pre-consciously participate in an implicit and subtle relation that can make it easy to overlook the distortions during the research process. These ethnographic distortions are generated within a framework drawn primarily on the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
KW - Pierre Bourdieu
KW - Proxy-ethnographic work
KW - ethnographic distortions
KW - symbolic violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85009253244&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17457823.2016.1277772
DO - 10.1080/17457823.2016.1277772
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1745-7823
VL - 13
SP - 100
EP - 118
JO - Ethnography and Education
JF - Ethnography and Education
IS - 1
ER -