Productive Tensions: Ethnographic Engagement, Complexity, and Contradiction

Productive Tensions: Ethnographic Engagement, Complexity, and Contradiction

This article discusses engagement, complexity, and contradiction as resources for, rather than simply impediments to, good research. Drawing on examples from her own work of the past three decades on body image, commercial sex, and the medical use of marijuana, the author examines the benefits of, a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of contemporary ethnography 2010-10, Vol.39 (5), p.483-497
1. Verfasser: Chapkis, Wendy
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Bias
Body Image
Drug use
Drugs
Ethnographic research
Ethnography
Ethnology
Knowledge
Marijuana
Medical marijuana
Medicine
Reflexivity
Self image
Sexual behavior
Sexuality
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Zusammenfassung:This article discusses engagement, complexity, and contradiction as resources for, rather than simply impediments to, good research. Drawing on examples from her own work of the past three decades on body image, commercial sex, and the medical use of marijuana, the author examines the benefits of, as well as some of the challenges presented by, this approach to scholarly practice.
ISSN:0891-2416
1552-5414
DOI:10.1177/0891241610375278