Between Games and Failure: A Micro-Ethnographic Study of Navajo Students and Testing

Inequality in the promised land: Race, resources, and suburban schooling is a well-written book by L’ Heureux Lewis-McCoy. The book is based on Lewis-McCoy’s doctoral dissertation, that included an ethnographic study in a suburban area named Rolling Acres in the Midwestern United States. Lewis-McCoy studied the relationship between families and those families’ relationships with schools. Through this study, the author explored how invisible inequality and racism in an affluent suburban area became the barrier for racial and economically minority students to grow up academically. Lewis-McCoy also discovered the hope of the minority community for raising their children for a better future.

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Achieving Collaborative Aims through Multiple Identity Construction: Managing a public inter-organizational collaboration

BORDER CROSSING ◽

10.33182/bc.v5i1-2.510 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Isidora Kourti

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Public Services ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Effective Management ◽

Collaborative Process ◽

Stability And Change ◽

Multiple Identity ◽

Organizational Collaboration

Although public inter-organizational collaborations can offer better public services, their management is a complex endeavour and they often fail. This paper explores identity construction as a key aspect that assists in managing successfully these collaborations. The study draws upon a longitudinal ethnographic study with a Greek public inter-organizational collaboration. The research illustrates that managers should encourage partners to construct collaborative and non-collaborative identities in order to achieve the collaboration aims. It also suggests that managers should seek both stability and change in the collaborative process and offers four collaborative patterns for the effective management of public inter-organizational collaborations.

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Human Rights and Community-led Development

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419796.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ben Cislaghi

Keyword(s):

Human Development ◽

West African ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Community Based ◽

Theoretical Understanding ◽

Qualitative Evidence ◽

Actual Change ◽

Grassroots Level ◽

Education And Development

How can we best empower people living in the most economically disadvantaged areas of the world to improve their lives in ways that matter to them? This book investigates work of the NGO Tostan as a working model of human development. The study is grounded in the ethnographic study of the actual change that happened in one West African village. The result is a powerful mix of theory and practice that questions existing approaches to development and that speaks to both development scholars and practitioners. Divided into three parts, the book firstly assesses why top-down approaches to education and development are unhelpful and offers a theoretical understanding of what constitutes helpful development. Part two examines Tostan's community-based participatory approach as an example of a helpful development intervention, and offers qualitative evidence of its effectiveness. Part three builds a model of how community-led development works, why it is helpful, and what practitioners can do to help people at the grassroots level lead their own human development.

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Every Detail Counts: Robert Stoller, Perversion and the Production of Pornography

Psychoanalysis and History ◽

10.3366/pah.2020.0324 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 35-52

Author(s):

Jeffrey Escoffier

Keyword(s):

Film Industry ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Systematic Method ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

Sexuality And Gender ◽

Pornographic Film ◽

And Gender ◽

Do So

After the publication of his pioneering book Sexual Excitement in 1979, Robert Stoller devoted the last 12 years of his life to the study of the pornographic film industry. To do so, he conducted an ethnographic study of people working in the industry in order to find out how it produced ‘perverse fantasies’ that successfully communicated sexual excitement to other people. In the course of his investigation he observed and interviewed those involved in the making of pornographic films. He hypothesized that the ‘scenarios’ developed and performed by people in the porn industry were based on their own perverse fantasies and their frustrations, injuries and conflicts over sexuality and gender; and that the porn industry had developed a systematic method and accumulated a sophisticated body of knowledge about the production of sexual excitement. This paper explores Stoller's theses and shows how they fared in his investigation.

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