Critical Urban Ethnography: Place, people and power (join a waiting list)

Date:

17/05/2018 - 18/05/2018

Organised by:

The University of Edinburgh

Presenter:

Michaela Benson is a Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Suzanne Hall, Associate Professor in Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Emma Jackson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths

Level:

Intermediate (some prior knowledge)

Contact:

Laura Marshall
0131 651 3001
L.marshall@ed.ac.uk
Working week: Monday-Wednesday

Map:

View in Google Maps  (SE14 6NW)

Venue:

The course will be held at two key sites: Goldsmiths College and Peckham, South London.
Day 1 will start @ 9.30am and close at 6pm. Day 2 10am start and close at 6pm

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:

• £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.

Cancellation Policy: Please be reminded that you will be charged the full registration fee if you cancel your place within 4 weeks before the training delivery date or you fail to attend.

If you are able to fill the place on the course you are cancelling then the cancellation charge will not apply.

Website and registration:

Region:

Greater London

Keywords:

Ethnography, Urban Practice , Ethnographic Methods , Participant observation , Place, people,power

Related publications and presentations:

Ethnography

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