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2 - Key Debates in the Field of Rapid Ethnographies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2020

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
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University College London
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Chapter 2 presents the key debates in the field of rapid ethnography and the assumptions associated with conventional ethnographic research. This chapter discusses the particular characteristics of rapid ethnographies. The chapter engages with discussions on epistemology, the role of theory and reflexivity in ethnographic research and the role these occupy in rapid ethnographies. These have been limitations identified by proponents of focused ethnographies (Knoblauch 2005) and short-term ethnographies (Pink and Morgan 2013), so this chapter seeks to provide evidence of how rapid ethnographies can also engage with theory and the reflective practice that characterises more 'traditional' forms of ethnography.

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epistemologytheoryreflexivityassumptions
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Rapid Ethnographies
A Practical Guide
 , pp. 18 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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