“I know it’s not ethnography!”: Reimagining Ethnographic Research and Training beyond Writing Culture

DURBIN, Trevor (KSU) “I know it’s not ethnography!”: 
Reimagining Ethnographic Research and Training beyond 
Writing Culture. While critiques of ethnographic methods 
abound, the primacy of scholarly norms for ethnography 
have persisted. Many professionals who use ethnographic 
methods, however, may never write ethnography but instead 
use ethnographic research for other purposes. As a result, the 
practice of ethnographic research, on one hand, and methods 
training and publication standards, on the other, have diverged. 
Although a well-known problem in some circles, more 
explicit attention is needed to the limits and possibilities of 
ethnographic research that is intentionally emancipated from 
ethnography as a genre of representation. This panel considers 
these limits and possibilities of ethnographic research beyond 
writing culture. tdurbin@ksu.edu (TH-48)