Naked FieldnotesDenielle ElliottLabel: University of Minnesota PressDescription: Creative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing Ethnographic research has long been cloaked in mystery around what fieldwork is really like for researchers how they collect data and how it is analyzed within the social sciences. Naked Fieldnotes a unique compendium of actual fieldnotes from contemporary ethnographic researchers from various modalities and research traditions unpacks how this research works its challenges and its possibilities. The volume pairs fieldnotes based on observations interviews drawings photographs soundscapes and other contemporary modes of recording research encounters with short reflective essays offering rich examples of how fieldnotes are composed and shaped by research experiences. These essays unlock the experience of conducting qualitative research in the social sciences providing clear examples of the benefits and difficulties of ethnographic research and how it differs from other forms of writing such as reporting and travelogue. By granting access to these personal archives Naked Fieldnotes unsettles taboos about the privacy of ethnographic writing and gives scholars a diverse multimodal approach to conceptualizing and doing ethnographic fieldwork. Contributors: Courtney Addison Te Herenga Waka-Victoria U of Wellington; Patricia Alvarez Astacio Brandeis U; Sareeta Amrute The New School; Barbara Andersen Massey U Auckland New Zealand; Adia Benton Northwestern U; Letizia Bonanno U of Kent; Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier U of Victoria; Michael Cepek U of Texas at San Antonio; Michelle Charette York U; TomÁs Criado Humboldt-U of Berlin; John Dale George Mason U; Elsa Fan Webster U; Kelly Fayard U of Denver; Michele Friedner U of Chicago; Susan Frohlick U of British Columbia Okanagan Syilx Territory; Angela Garcia Stanford U; Danielle Gendron U of British Columbia; Mascha Gugganig Technical U Munich; Natalia Gutkowski Hebrew U of Jerusalem; T. S. Harvey Vanderbilt U; Saida Hodžić Cornell U; K. G. Hutchins Oberlin College; Basit Kareem Iqbal McMaster U; Emma Kowal Deakin U in Melbourne; Mathangi Krishnamurthy IIT Madras; Shyam Kunwar; Margaret MacDonald York U in Toronto; Stephanie McCallum U Nacional de San MartÍn and U de San AndrÉs Argentina; Diana Ojeda Cider U de los Andes in BogotÁ Colombia; Valerie Olson U of California Irvine; Patrick Mbullo Owuor Northwestern U; Stacy Leigh Pigg Fraser U; Jason Pine Purchase College State U of New York; Chiara Pussetti U of Lisbon; Tom Rice U of Exeter; Leslie A. Robertson U of British Columbia Vancouver; Yana Stainova McMaster U; Richard Vokes U of Western Australia; Russell Westhaver Saint Mary’s U in Nova Scotia; Paul White U of Nevada Reno.
