Multi-Sited Ethnography
Developing Avant-Garde Methodology for Creative Research Into Everyday Lives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3365966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandrina Vanke (0000-0003-4347-3740, The Institute of Sociology of the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13607804251345915 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
This article argues for the need to develop multi-sited ethnography as an avant-garde methodology that combines classic methods of observation and interviewing with creative and arts-based methods, such as drawing and sketching, in research into everyday lives in multiple locations. I define avant-garde methodology as a creative approach to research aimed at inventing new research forms and strategies, experimenting with mixing methods and genres, and suggesting a deeper, multi-sensory exploration of the everyday. Combining methods and conducting fieldwork in several locations brings multi-sensory data, requiring a complex data analysis strategy termed 'analytical assemblage'. Applying multi-sited ethnography opens opportunities for generating, revising, and synthesising concepts. Writing multi-sited ethnography implies an elaboration of a creative strategy of re-assembling multi-sensory data. By developing avant-garde methodology, the article contributes to sensory ethnography and creative methods through bringing new insights into the use of drawing, sketching, analytical assemblage, mixed genre writing, and innovative dissemination
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Engaging Crystallization in Qualitative Research
Thematic Analysis
Ethnography in/of the World System
Questions of process in participant-generated visual methodologies
Being Alive
Everywhere and nowhere at once
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Being there… and there… and there
Observational sketching as method
Drawings, Photos, and Performances
Doing Sensory Ethnography
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Co-existing structures of feeling
What Is At Stake-And Is Not-In The Idea And Practice Of Multi-Sited Ethnography
A Manifesto for Live Methods
Inside the Research-Assemblage
Adding Theoretical Grounding to Grounded Theory
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Beyond the standard interview
From participant observation to participant action(-to-be)
Can You Visualize Theory? On the Use of Visual Thinking in Theory Pictures, Theorizing Diagrams, and Visual Sketches
Researching Lay Perceptions of Inequality through Images of Society
The Extended Case Method
Sensory ethnography
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |