Working Bibliography

A syllabus is always just a "taste" of the field. Below is a list of other books and articles that you may also want to read. This list is of course not exhaustive, but rather simply the readings that I considered but didn't have room for in the syllabus:

Recommended Textbooks:

  • Agamben, Giorgio. The Coming of Community.
  • Bauman, R. 1986. Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies in Narrative. London: Cambridge University Press.
  • Barthes, Roland. Discourses of Love.
  • Behar, Ruth. 1996. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Berg, Bruce. L. 2007. Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Boston: Pearson
  • Bernstein, Charles. Close Listening.
  • Burawoy, Michael, Burton, Ferguson and Fox, eds. 2005. Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. California: University of California Press.
  • Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble.
  • Clifford, J. 1988. The Predicament of Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Denzin, Norman K. 1997. Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century. Sage.
  • Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Handbook of Qualitative Research. Safe Publications.
  • Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. 1995. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press.
  • Foucault, Discipline and Punish.
  • Foucault, History of Sexuality.
  • Gray, Ann. Research Approaches for Cultural Studies.
  • Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickenson.
  • Harper, Doug. 1997. "Visualizing Structure: Reading surfaces of social life." Qualitative Sociology 20 (1), 57-77.
  • Irigaray, Luce. This Sex which is not one.
  • Minh-ha. Trinh. Woman, Native, Other.
  • Reason, P. and Bradbury, H. 2001. (eds) Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. London: Sage.
  • Rubin, Herbert J. and Irene S. Rubin. Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Sage Publications. 1rst or 2nd eds.
  • Spivak, Gayatri.
  • Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Whatmore, Sarah. 2004. Using Social Theory: Thinking through Research.
  • Recommended articles and Book chapters:
  • Cizek, Katerina. 2005. "Storytelling for Advocacy: Conceptualization and Preproduction," Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism. Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 74-121.
  • Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play."
  • Ewald, Wendy. 2001. "Literacy Through Photography," I Wanna Take Me a Picture. Boston: Beacon Press, 29-77.
  • Fine, M., Torre, M.E., Boudin, K., Bowen, I., Clark, J., Hylton, D., Martinez,
    M., Roberts, R.A., Smart, P., & Upegui, D. 2003. "Participatory action research: From within and beyond prison bars." In P.M. Camic, J.E. Rhodes, & L. Yardley (Eds.), Qualitative Research in Psychology (pp. 173-198). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
  • Foley, DE . 2002. "Critical ethnography: the reflexive turn." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 15 (5): 469-490.
  • Gordon, Edmund T., Galio C. Gurdián, and Charles R. Hale. 2003. "Rights, Resources, and the Social Memory of Struggle: Reflections on a Study of Indigenous and Black Community Land Rights on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast," Human Organization 62(4): 369-381.
  • Hart, Gillian. 2006. Denaturalizing Dispossession: Critical Ethnography in the Age of Resurgent Imperialism, Antipode 38 (5), 977–1004.
  • Harper, Douglas. 2002. "Talking about pictures: a case for photo elicitation." Visual Studies 17, (1) 13-26.
  • Hansen, Christian, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols, 1991. "Pornography, Ethnography, and the Discourses of Power," Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 201-228.
  • Holliday, R., 2000. We've been framed: Visualizing methodology. The Sociological Review, 48(4), 503-522.
  • Holstein and Gubrium, "Active Interviewing," (Pp. 112-126, Qualitative Research Methods).
  • hooks, bell. 1995. "In our Glory: Photography and black life" in bell hooks, Art on my Mind: Visual Politics. New York: New Press, 54-64).
  • Jacobson-Hardy, Michael. 2002. "Behind the razor wire: A photographic essay." Ethnography 3(4): 398-415.
  • Jordan, Steve and David Yeomans. 1995. "Critical Ethnography: Problems in Contemporary Theory and Practice" British Journal of Sociology of Education 16(3): 389-408
  • Madison, Soyini. 2005. "Introduction to Critical Ethnography: Theory and Method" in Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics and Performance. London: Sage.
  • Roulston, deMarrais, and Lewis. 2003. "Learning to Interview in the Social Sciences." Qualitative Inquiry 9, 4, 643-668.
  • Thomas, J. 1993. Doing Critical Ethnography. London: Sage. [chapter one]
  • Simon, Roger I. and Donald Dippo. "On Critical Ethnographic Work." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 17(4): 195-202.
  • Oguibe, Olu. 1998. "Photography and the Substance of the Image," The Visual Culture Reader, N. Mirzoff, ed. New York: Routledge, 565-583.
  • Pinney, Christopher. 1992. "The Parallel Histories of Anthropology and Photography," Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920. E. Edwards, ed. New Haven: Yale University, 74-95.
  • Russel, Catherine. "Autoethnography: Journeys of the Self" Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video. Durham: Duke University, 275-314.
  • Pink, Sarah. 2001. More visualizing, more methodologies: On video, reflexivity and qualitative research. The Sociological Review 49(4), 586-599.
  • Sacco, Joe. 2003. "How I Loved the War," Notes from a Defeatist. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, 156-189.
  • Shanklin, Eugenia. 1979. "When a Good Social Role is Worth a Thousand Pictures," In Jon Wagner (ed) Images of Information: Still Photography in the Social Sciences. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Pp. 139-145.
  • Torre, Susanna. "Constructing Memorials," Experiments with Truth Documenta #2.