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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"multi-sited ethnography"”.
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Elucidating the Relationship between Chinese Medicine and Systems Biology: A Multi-Sited Ethnography
… biology. For the purpose of this research, a multi-sited ethnography was conducted over a period of eleven months and a literature survey was employed to trace the start and the development of this heterogeneous network. Ethnographic data reveals in four chapters on the rhetoric and …
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A cultural analysis of information technology offshore outsourcing: an exercise in multi-sited ethnography of virtual work
<p>This study is an exploration of how ethnography and anthropological analysis can provide new understanding of transnational, multi-sited research phenomena. Research focused on the work activities of one American client organization and its Indian IT service provider situated in the global …
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Wildlife-human relations and education in community-based marine tourism: a case study of coastal Oregon, U.S.A.
… view of these concerns, this thesis represents a multi-species and multi-sited ethnography investigating the complexities around degrowth management, tourism policy, and education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic within select Oregonian coastal and marine community-based tourism destinations. …
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A Study on Mobility: Pakistani-Origin Muslim Youth in Higher Education
My dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography that investigates the gendered lifeworlds of transnational Pakistani-origin, Muslim college students in New York City and in Lahore, Pakistan. My ethnographic approach follows the multiple and overlapping mobility trajectories of transnational youth as …
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Moms are survivors, because our kids are more ours': narratives of middle-class, white mothers in Cape Town
… and work responsibilities. Through use of multi-sited ethnography, I was able to enter the lives of ten white, middle-class South African mothers aged between early forties to early fifties. The data collected was obtained through participant observation, casual conversations and formal, …
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Redefining, Crafting, and Re/Presenting Contemporary Ethnicities: Honduran National Identity, 1994–2006
… of mestizaje to one of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism.</p> <p>This thesis is a multi-sited ethnography that examines the cultural politics of four institutions of power in Honduras. I explore how one state-sponsored project and three private museums contributed to the redefinition of …
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Technologies of mining production: space, discourse, new materialities, and media
… process of mineral extraction, I use multi-sited ethnography, critical ethnography, performance, and critical discourse analysis as complementary methodologies and theories, and I use them for their politics and application in archival research and fieldwork. Through these …
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"Producing ""Local"" Repertoire: Czech Identity, Pop Music, and the Global Music Industry"
… production of music transnationally. Utilizing a multi-sited ethnography to examine the relationships between the Bertelsmann Music Group (Prague, London and New York) and Czech pop/rock music culture, it illuminates the factors that inform their structure, practices, and belief systems. I …
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Transnational development: Limitations and potentialities of a model for 'Migration and Development' : case study Caxcania
… was carried out, with a particular focus on multi-sited ethnography and cross-border units of analyses. By employing a range of methodological tools, the potentialities and limits of transnational development were revealed. The main results are that there are institutional, sociocultural, …
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Pharmaceutical relationships : intersections of illness, fantasy, and capital in the age of direct-to-consumer marketing
This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography among marketers, consumer-patients and psychiatrists in the U.S. It explores the recent history of styles of pharmaceutical advertising that have come about in response to FDA regulations and ethical issues raised by patients and the press about how …
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"One Island's Harvest". Heritage, Diaspora & Ancestral Tourism to Tiree
… Gàidhealtachd.<br/>Taking the form of a multi-sited ethnography, this study traces the meanings and experiences entangled with ancestral tourism to Tiree, thus bringing into view the “diaspora space” within which such journeys take place, and exploring “the intertwining of the genealogies …
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Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work and the Blame Game
… teachers' work which are largely invisible. This multi-sited ethnography traces how teachers make sense of these blaming discourses in two urban educational contexts: Teach For America (TFA), a national program that recruits college graduates to teach in poor schools, and Project Voice, a small, …
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[De]stabilizing the neoliberal food regime: the struggle for the defense of corn in Mexico
… accept that new order as normal. This is a multi-sited ethnography and multi-methods qualitative study that examines the on-going process of naturalization of the neoliberal food regime in Mexico and the attempts to destabilize it. I conducted participant observation, archival research, and …
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"Mobilizing ""Asian American"": rhetoric and ethnography of Asian American media organizations"
… categorized as “Asian American?” Through a multi-sited ethnography, this dissertation examines the rhetoric of three Asian American media organizations: the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), and the Foundation of Asian American …
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The pregnant pause: exploring expectations and experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in a Cape Town body positive community
… I collected data over a six month period through multi-sited ethnography and the qualitative anthropological techniques of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and autoethnography. Through an overarching lens of intersectional feminism I drew from an interdisciplinary body of …
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Doing Dutch Wax cloth : practice, politics, and 'the new Africa'
… and what is produced alongside these forms-this multi-sited ethnography brings to light how Africa's relationship to and place in the global is negotiated in the practices of designers, advertisers, sellers, buyers, and tailors across the Netherlands, Togo, and "the global." I argue that the view …
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Disco Jalebi : an ethnographic exploration of Gay Bombay
… 1990. Within this thesis, using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis and memoir writing, I attempt to provide various macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point of time. …
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Hateful and Heartwarming Bonds: The Senses as Strategy in the South Korean Family
… by the same neoliberal logics. Utilizing multi-sited ethnography, media analysis, and an interdisciplinary feminist perspective, I followed the language of sensory development and sensory experience in practice through participant-observation at community spaces, and through ethnographic …
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Inhabited perspectives on the North Coast 500: Re-making local heritage in touristed communities of the Scottish Highlands
… around the NC500. The study takes the form of a multi-sited ethnography employing participatory visual research methodologies in three case studies situated around the route. Conducted in collaboration with local community heritage organisations, this approach makes visible and knowable a diverse …
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"Never again a Mexico without us" : gender, indigenous autonomy, and multiculturalism in neoliberal Mexico
… are crucial to the gains of the project. This multi-sited ethnography of that process takes place in a zone of contact where local practices and struggles for indigenous rights, autonomy, and women’s rights meet with solidarity and opposition. My dissertation follows two strategic lines of …
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