About the Book
Multi-Sited Ethnography has established itself as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists in recent years. It responds to the challenge of combining multi-sited work with the need for in-depth analysis, allowing for a more considered study of social worlds.
This volume utilizes cutting-edge research from a number of renowned scholars and empirical experiences, to present theoretical and practical facets charting the development and direction of new research into social phenomena.
Owing to its clear contribution to a rapidly emerging field, Multi-Sited Ethnography will appeal to anyone studying social actors, including scholars within human geography, anthropology, sociology and development and migration studies.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: multi-sited ethnography: theory, praxis, and locality in contemporary research, Mark-Anthony Falzon; Arbitrary locations: in defence of the bounded field-site, Matei Candea; What if there is no elephant? Towards a conception of an un-sited field, Joanna Cook, James Laidlaw and Jonathan Mair; Scaling and visualizing multi-sited ethnography, Kim Fortun; In the right place at the right time? Reflections on multi-sited ethnography in the age of migration, Ester Gallo; Emplacement and environmental relations in multi-sited practice/theory, Caroline Gatt; Expanding sites: the question of 'depth' explored, Cindy Horst; Follow the missionary: connected and disconnected flows of meaning in the Norwegian Mission Society, Ingie Hovland; Localizing climate change: a multi-sited approach, Werner Krauss; Changing places: the advantages of multi-sited ethnography, Karen Isaksen Leonard; Multi-sited ethnography: notes and queries, George E. Marcus; Strong collaboration as a method for multi-sited ethnography: on mycorrhizal relations, Matsutake Worlds Research Group (Timothy Choy, Lieba Faier, Michael Hathaway, Miyako Inoue, Shiho Satsuka, and Anna Tsing); Bridging boundaries with a transnational research approach: a simultaneous matched sample methodology, Valentina Mazzucato; Contours of the field(s): multi-sited ethnography as a theory-driven research strategy for sociology, Eva Nadai and Christoph Maeder; Traversing cultural sites: doing ethnography among Sudanese migrants in Germany, Cordula Weißköppel; Afterword: the long march of anthropology, Ulf Hannerz; Index.
About the Author :
Mark-Anthony Falzon is a Lecturer in Social Science at the University of Malta and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Mark-Anthony Falzon, Matei Candea, Joanna Cook, James Laidlaw, Jonathan Mair, Kim Fortun, Ester Gallo Caroline Gatt, Cindy Horst, Ingie Hovland, Werner Krauss, Karen Isaksen Leonard, George E. Marcus, Timothy Choy, Lieba Faier, Michael Hathaway, Miyako Inoue, Shiho Satsuka, Anna Tsing, Valentina Mazzucato, Eva Nadai, Christoph Maeder, Cordula Weisskoppel, Ulf Hannerz.
Review :
'Since the mid-1990s, globalization has inspired heightened interest in transnational practices, groups-in-motion and the social construction of space. Subsequently social scientists have been in need of new methodologies to generate relevant sets of data, description and analysis. Multi-sited Ethnography squarely addresses this need by providing a rich set of critical reflections and practical examples for researching social formations spanning numerous localities.' Steven Vertovec, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany 'This edited volume is a highly reflexive piece of work and, I believe, a must read for any specialist in anthropology, sociology, and development and migrations studies, or anyone dealing with the "multi-sited" in their research.' antropologi.info 'Is multi-sited ethnography (still) an oxymoron? This collection, edited by Mark- Anthony Falzon and comprising a wide range of exemplary work by both young and established anthropologists, simultaneously challenges and reinforces this perception...It will serve well as textbook providing case studies and theoretical discussions for methodology-oriented courses and will do much to keep alive the debate about whatever happened to ethnography after the multi-site.' Critique of Anthropology '[Mark-Anthony Falzon's] edited collection convenes fourteen essays from a worldwide pool of renowned scholars at the forefront of the movement toward multi-sited ethnography... The entire roster of contributors is impressive... Each of the book's chapters is a worthwhile read, reporting theoretical and/or methodological advances in ethnography. Taken together, the book makes important contributions to sociology and anthropology and likely will be a popular text among current and future scholars in both fields.' Ethnic and Racial Studies
