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Ethnography and Market Research
The Ethnography Lab is pleased to welcome Dr. Barbara McGrath to speak about ethnographic methods in the context of market research. Join us in the Ethnography Lab Seminar Room, located in the Anthropology Building, room 330, on Friday, February 12th, 5-6pm for a stimulating discussion. More than a decade ago, the ethnographic method started to … Continue reading
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
What did we Learn from the Small Things? (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
Introduction By Sarom In the introduction to her book, The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects (1999), Barbara Cruikshank draws out a memorable ethnographic vignette of what her attention to “small things” was able to afford her. Around 1989, Cruikshank noticed one day that the garbage bins in her neighborhood had new padlocks. … Continue reading
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
Tracing Power (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
PART 1: THEORIES OF POWER Introduction By Jessica Broe-Vayda How do we begin an analysis of power in the university? Over the course of the last three months, our research collective has attempted to disentangle a variety of practices, techniques, relations, modes of action, discourses, and administrative initiatives in order to trace how the university … Continue reading
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
Student Bios (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
Shannon McKechnie Shannon is a fifth-year undergraduate student completing a specialist in Socio-cultural Anthropology. She is currently a Residence Don and Leadership Programs Assistant at the University of Toronto and is interested in all things to do with the student experience at University. Shannon has previously done research in Kerala, India with post-secondary students, exploring … Continue reading
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
What is the University? (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
In this course, students start their research projects by asking broadly “What is the University?” While the university might have its own ideas about what it means to be and to run an educational institution, the students apply their theoretical knowledge acumen to think critically and productively about the thing that we call the university … Continue reading
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
Introduction (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
Why Study Power in the University? By Dr. Tania Li A few considerations prompted me to propose power as a focus for our study of the university in the undergraduate course, ANT 473 Ethnographic Practicum The University 2015. First, I received a collegial nudge from Professor Nancy Abelmann, who first developed the “Ethnography of the … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Theatre Workshop
By Sydney Lang I initially viewed CREST through the lens of Freire’s pedagogy of oppression, where the oppressed can only be freed from their position through a change in individual consciousness, which is accomplished through problem-posing education and critical thinking on social issues. However, within the formal curriculum at CREST, I did not witness any … Continue reading
Building Closeness with Theatre
By Sara Christensen During my time at CREST, I observed three main spaces that the students in the CREST program occupied: the CREST campus, the student hostels, and the convent in which the theatre workshop occurred. The theatre workshop existed as a week-long culmination of Batch 23’s program, in which the students explored, utilized and … Continue reading
Reflecting on Privilege
By Sydney Lang Before I left for Kerala, I was very aware of my own privilege within a Canadian context, and was curious to see what challenges I would face while navigating this understanding in a new cultural setting, especially due to the nature of our role as white, Western anthropologists and interns. I reflected … Continue reading
The Rewards of Ethnography
By Shannon McKechnie When I think about this past summer, most of the time I can’t believe I was in India for two months. The entire experience was so incredible, but seemed to go by so fast! There are so many things I discovered during the 8 weeks we spent in Kerala. Ethnographic field work … Continue reading
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