Critical Urban Ethnography: Place, people and power (few places remaining)
Date:
18/05/2017 - 19/05/2017
Organised by:
The University of Edinburgh
Presenter:
Michaela Benson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London
Suzanne Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Emma Jackson, Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Level:
Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Contact:
Laura Marshall
0131 651 3001
L.marshall@ed.ac.uk
Working week: Monday-Wednesday
Description:
This two-day course provides advanced training in urban ethnographic research. The course is designed to develop knowledge and understanding of ethnographic research through urban field encounters, and encourages participants to be attentive to how and why ethnography makes sense of the spatial and symbolic dimensions of urban change. The course aims to develop knowledge, understanding and confidence in conducting urban ethnography.
The course includes field-based training and peripatetic teaching methods focussed on a particular fieldsite — Peckham in South London — alongside classroom-based workshops, in order to explore how places and people are connected to wider urban processes including discrimination, diversification, mobility and gentrification .
Course participants will explore the challenges and strengths of urban ethnography through field encounters. In this way, the course inspires experiences that focus both on ethnography as a way of finding out and a process of critical reflection, connecting the particularities of people and places to wider processes of urbanisation.
Cost:
The fee per teaching day is:
• £30 per day for UK/EU registered students
• £60 per day for staff at UK/EU academic institutions, UK/EU Research Councils researchers, UK/EU public sector staff and staff at UK/EU registered charity organisations and recognised UK/EU research institutions.
• £220 per day for all other participants
All fees include event materials, lunch, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs.
Website and registration:
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Ethnographic Research, Place, people and power , Urban Practice , Participant observation , Ethnographic methods
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