Full Description
Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is about the imagination, stimulation, and reflection that can come with international, interdisciplinary teams sharing the development, application, analysis, and dissemination of research. Although the book is based on a large, seven-year project studying care homes to search for promising practices and is guided by feminist political economy, the lessons we have learned are relevant for everyone undertaking empirical investigation. All research needs to consider theory -- the organization of information, ethics, and dissemination, for example. The specific techniques and approaches the authors discuss can be applied to a wide range of qualitative methods and are not exclusive to this kind of ethnography. By dissecting experiences and uniting chapters through the theme of creative, reflexive team work, the book considers issues and methods of interest to all those struggling through the research process, with or without team support.
Contents
Introduction
Pat Armstrong
Chapter 1: Theory Matters
Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
Chapter 2: Administrative Matters
Pat Armstrong and Wendy Winters
Chapter 3: Ethics as Teamwork
Susan Braedley
Chapter 4: Organizing Site Visits: Methodological Considerations
Martha MacDonald
Chapter 5: Feminist Political Economy and Flexible Team Interviewing
Tamara Daly and Ruth Lowndes
Chapter 6: Fieldnotes: Individual Versus Team-Based Rapid Ethnography
Ruth Lowndes, Palle Storm, and Marta Szebehely
Chapter 7: Different Eyes: An RN/Sociologist and an Historian Invite You on a Tour of Our Fieldnotes
Jacqueline Choiniere and James Struthers
Chapter 8: New to Long-Term Residential Care: Using Reflexivity to Navigate Research Tensions as Student Novice Ethnographers
Krystal Kehoe MacLeod, Suzanne Day, and Sandra Smele
Chapter 9: Snap-Happy? The Promise and Problems of Photovoice
Ruth Lowndes and Susan Braedley
Chapter 10: Telling Stories: Literary Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Team Research
Sally Chivers and Derek Newman-Stille
Chapter 11: Rapid Ethnography and a Knowledge Translation Project: Benefits from Bookettes
Donna Baines and Rachel Gnanayutham
Chapter 12: Threading the Strands: Tensions and Possibilities of Team-Based Rapid Ethnography
Pat Armstrong
