Writing Tales of the Future: Five “Balancing Acts” for Globographers

• Authors: Hans Erik Næss
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Since the early 1990s much has been written about how ethnographers should do fieldwork of the local in a globalizing world. The challenge of communicating their analyses authentically in a world of information overload is much less debated. To rectify this situation, I argue in this paper that five balancing acts are crucial to those who do ethnographies of the global, or “globographers,” in their writing. Emerging from a review of the history of fieldwork and writing, these balancing acts constitute a template of how a communicative consciousness may assist qualitative researchers in achieving ethnographic integrity.

Keywords

EN

Ethnographic Imagination; Translocal Fieldwork; Creative Writing; Qualitative Research; Communication Strategy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Qualitative Sociology Review
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 134-148

Dates

published

2021-02-08

Contributors

author

Hans Erik Næss

• Kristiania University College, Norway

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5757-1988

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1733-8077.17.1.9