Portholes of Ethnography: The Methodological Learning from ‘Being There’ at a Distance
Portholes of Ethnography: The Methodological Learning from ‘Being There’ at a Distance
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民族志的舷窗：从远处“身在其中”的方法论学习
作者：
Julie Walsh;Asma Khan;Maria Teresa Ferazzoli
民族志本质上是一种依赖于“在场”的社会研究方法，社会世界的民族志方法在社会学研究中已被广泛采用。在这份研究报告中，我们与专业从业人员分享了我们在2019冠状病毒病大流行的最初几个月在英国进行民族志实地考察的经验，当时“呆在家里”是“在那里”的对立面。在此过程中，我们强调了疫情带来的机会，以重新评估熟悉的定性方法，开发新的远程民族志研究策略，并检查从远处进行民族志的局限性。我们认为我们有多远伸展“民族志”在社会距离的背景下，使用我们所谓的“舷窗民族志”，我们概述了我们的学习如何通知的方式，我们可以适应研究方法-由关系驱动-在危机的时候。
Ethnography is, in essence, an approach to social research reliant on ‘being there’ and ethnographic approaches to the social world have been widely taken up in sociological research. In this research note, we share our UK-based experiences of ethnographic fieldwork with professional practitioners during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when ‘staying at home’ was the antithesis of ‘being there’. In doing so, we highlight opportunities the pandemic presented to re-evaluate familiar qualitative methods, to develop new, remote ethnographic research strategies and to examine the limitations of conducting ethnography from a distance. We consider how far we stretch ‘ethnography’ in a socially distanced context, using what we call ‘portholes of ethnography’, and we outline how our learning informs the ways in which we can adapt research approaches – driven by relationality – in times of crises.