RabachK VtP Collaboration Biography

If I were to choose just one, I’m most interested in collaboration ethnography because it is something that is so new to me, yet should be something so familiar seeing how all forms of ethnography require collaboration. Last quarter, I was fortunate to work with Kim and Tim on the undergraduate course “Environmental Injustices,” and through them I was able to see the extraordinary benefits of what it means to collectively produce an analytic language. It’s an entirely experimental form of scholarly communication, but I found myself wondering why this type of collaboration isn’t more commonplace. I do know, from both Kim and Tim, that building the capacity for this type of collaboration takes a lot of deliberation and work at all points of the process. In VtP I’m excited to be privy to conversations about how we actually create this space of collaboration. I hope these conversations will help me think of ways the AiT conference, as well as my own research space, can also become a space of collaborative ethnography.