Metropoems
Poetic Method and Ethnographic Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Garance Maréchal (0000-0001-7134-081X, University of Liverpool Management School,), Stephen Linstead (0000-0002-1006-2921, The York Management School) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-77 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800409349757 |
| OpenAlex | W2133879527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 34 |
Discussions of the use and significance of poetry as a research tool have raised the question of poetic technique and craftsmanship in ethnographic poetic outputs. In this article, the authors look explicitly at a contemporary poetic form, the "metropoem" originated by French Oulipian poet Jacques Jouet,1 arguing that it presents a potentially valuable new tool for qualitative research for four reasons. First, the "metropoetic" form enables the taking of a position that neither turns inward toward the ethnographer's self nor outward toward an empathic relation with the ethnographic other, but is focused in the moment, in place, and in motion-which resists the temptations of nostalgia and Romanticism that have attracted criticism of "research poetry." Second, it imposes a discipline that is derived from a specific activity, which embodies the rhythms, time, and space of that activity, distinguishing metropoems from poetry that recollects or represents. Third, it demands attention to technique, to poetry as a craft, which underscores calls made by recent critical work in this area. Finally, despite being practically, empirically, and metaphorically enformed by the mobility of contemporary urban social experience, it offers a method that can usefully be adapted to encapsulate other forms of social life
Aesthetics · Art · Craft · Criticism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Literature · Poetry · Relation (database · Romanticism · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
I poems
O pożytkach badań poetyckich w naukach społecznych
Autoethnography and academic identity
The Politics and Poetics of “Fieldnotes”
Case study, poetic transcription and learning to teach indigenous movement in physical education
Ethnographic Poetry and Social Research
The Form and Flow of Teaching Ethnographic Knowledge
Girls’ working together without ‘teams’
Thick poetry
Spaces of Culture
The model of the text
The Aesthetics of Organization
Constructing mystery
Non-places
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Another Modernity, A Different Rationality
Interpretive Ethnography
Poetic Forms and Structures in Qualitative Health Research
Jacques Jouet, Metro Poet
With (and Without) Constraints
Subway Poems
The Postmodern Condition
Jacques Jouet and the Literature of Exhaustion
The Research Poem in International Social Work
Afterthought
The End(s) of Ethnography
That Rare Feeling
Concern With Craft
In Defense of the Sensual
Evaluating Ethnography
Bauman's Metaphors
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |