Ethnographic Borders and Boundaries: Permeability, Plasticity, and Possibilities

Immigrants, migrants, displaced, and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort. This book explores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be; who is affected by socially constructed borders; what it means to individuals and nation-states to recognise and deal with arbitrary divisions; and finally, what might be done to find – and act on – solutions to the inequity wrought by these borders and boundaries.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Robert E. Rinehart: Drawing Lines: Bordering, Marginality, Othering Within Progressive Cultures – Karen N. Barbour: Praxis and Advocacy: Doing Ethnography on the Ground – Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, and Csaba Osvath: Identifying with the Suffering of Others: In Search of Purifying Conversations – Moira Sofia Fortin Cornejo: Permeating the Boundaries of «Tradition» in the Creation of Contemporary Rapanui, Māori, and Diasporic Samoan Theatre – Cecile Morden: Between Intimacy and Independence Lies the Shadow of What It Means to Know the Familiar Other – Debi Futter- Puati: Tivaevae Episto- Methodology: Use of Cultural Metaphor in Indigenous Communities – Jacquie Kidd: 333 Stories: A Poetic Re- telling of Hurt – Jacquie Kidd: Emerging Methods: Traditional, Experimental, Transgressive Forms – Carolyn Ellis, Arthur P. Bochner, Jerry Rawicki, and Steven Schoen: Identifying with the Suffering of Others: Evocative Autoethnography and Compassionate Interviewing with a Holocaust Survivor – Allison Jeffrey: Yoga Philosophy Meets Feminist Theory: Methodological Choices in an Embodied and Entangled Ethnography – Heidi van Rooyen: The Race for Colouredness in Contemporary South Africa – Christian Spencer Espinosa: Leaving Fieldwork? Musical Ethnographies and the Perpetual Insider – Rodrigo Hill: Let Light Create Imaginary Spaces: Photography and Place- Making – Michael T. Hayes: A Speculative Ethnography on the Future of Education – Robert E. Rinehart: Social Justice and Transformation: Theoretical Ethnographic Visions – Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Orality and Daily Insurgence – Synthia Sydnor: Letters from a Sundown Town – Sue Cheesman: Building Community in Dance Education: How Curriculum, Creativity, and Relationship Matter – Lydia Nakashima Degarrod: Visualizing and Recalling Exile at the Art Installation Geographies of the Imagination – Katrina Waite, Theresa Anderson, and Mukti Bawa: Practices, Not Perceptions or Percentages: Arguing for Ethnographic Methods in Higher Education Gender Research – Antonio García: Learning Cycles: One Narrative of Place and Education – César Cisneros Puebla and Vanessa Jara Labarthé: Ethnography at the Edge of Risk – Roslyn Appleby: A Multispecies Ethnography with Sharks.

About the Author :
Robert E. Rinehart initiated the Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines Association (ACEAD) and hui. Retired, he was Associate Professor at the University of Waikato and Washington State University. Jacquie Kidd, currently President of ACEAD, is Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology. She researches from a Kaupapa Maōri perspective and studies health inequity issues in Aotearoa New Zealand. Karen N. Barbour, Associate Professor in Dance at the University of Waikato, examines creative practice in the arts, embodiment, women’s holistic wellbeing, and dance. She has been involved in ACEAD as a committee member since its inception.

Review :
«A stunning collection of border-crossing, transgressive essays on the complexities of living in the twilight zones of the postmodern, complexities made visible by contemporary ethnography at the crossroads. A must read.» (Norman K. Denzin, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois)