Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Methodology and Love Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11921696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wanda Vrasti (McMaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-88 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Millennium Journal of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-8298 • E-ISSN: 1477-9021 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829810371017 |
| OpenAlex | W1981136950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
This rejoinder pays special attention to two of Jason Rancatore’s main points of criticism: that I advance a purist notion of ethnography and that ethnography is a data-collection method like any other. Firstly, I defend my earlier interdisciplinary reading of ethnography, arguing that, while anthropology does not maintain a monopoly over the ‘pure’ or ‘proper’ dispensation of ethnography, the history and complexity of this practice cannot be grasped in its entirety unless we engage its ‘home field’ of anthropology. Secondly, I approach ethnography as a critique of the way in which knowledge is commonly produced and communicated within social science research. Rather than obsessing over questions of research design, ethnography is an exercise in being truthful about the distance we travel from research questions to finished manuscript, with all its doubts, epiphanies and improvisations. If the case of ethnography and IR is a strange one, as Rancatore suggests, it is because the contribution of ethnography continues to be assessed in terms of the purchase power it has for disciplinarity and not in light of the avenues it opens for making academic writing useful to a wider variety of purposes and audiences
Aesthetics · Criticism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Monopoly · Political science · Power (physics · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International Relations
Doing feminist collaborative event ethnography
Novel writing in international relations
Improvising the international
Ethnography and international relations
Subversive Knowledge in Times of Global Political Crisis
A Decolonial Feminist Politics of Fieldwork
Learning how to embrace trans/feminisms and queer/ cuir- ness in International Relations through art and creative methods
Critiquing Anthropological Imagination in Peace and Conflict Studies
Autobiography, ontology, autoethnology
Una aproximación de los aportes etnográficos a los estudios diplomáticos
Experiencing transnationalism at home
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |