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What is the text about – empirically?What phenomenon is drawn out in the text?  A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics? Clandestine migration, a social-political process taken on by migrants that are escaping political and non-political violence but need to mask their nationality and identity in order to successfully migrate. Where is this phenomenon located – in a neighborhood, in a country, in “Western Culture,” in a globa

What is the text “about” -- empirically and conceptually? What modes of inquiry were used to produce it? How is the text structured and performed? How can it circulate?   What is the text about – empirically?What phenomenon is drawn out in the text?  A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics?The book explores the use of the webcam and its implicatio

SKETCHING ETHNOGRAPHYQUESTIONING ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXTSAdán Martinez Ordaz, Fall 2019Department of Anthropology, University of California IrvineAnthro 215A / “Ethnographic Methods” / Professor Kim FortunThe Land of Open Graves The land of open graves: Living and dying on the migrant trail.

SKETCHING ETHNOGRAPHYQuestioning Ethnographic TextsSocorro Cambero, Fall 2019School of Education, University of California, IrvineAnthro 215A/ "Ethnographic Methods"/ Professor Kim FortunThe Lives of Campus Custodians: Insights Into Corporatization and Civic Engagement in the Academy  By Peter Magolda/ Stylus PublishingWhat is the text “about

What is the text “about” -- empirically and conceptually? Multispecies care in India’s Central HimalayasWhat modes of inquiry were used to produce it? Takes at the starting point the concept of relatedness, kin making.How is the text structured and performed? Introduction places the book within larger academic debates and local discourses, each chapter is an exploration of the lives of a “range of different animals” (25).

SKETCHING ETHNOGRAPHYQUESTIONING ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXTSIsabelle Soifer, Fall 2019Department of Anthropology, University of California IrvineAnthro 215A / “Ethnographic Methods” / Professor Kim FortunWaste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability By Tiffany Willoughby-Herard/University of California Press, 2015What is the text “about” -- empirically and conceptually? This text is about white fragility, white poverty, and the manner

Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart by Shawn Ginwright/ Routledge, 2016 What is the text “about” -- empirically and conceptually? What modes of inquiry were used to produce it? How is the text structured and performed? How can it circulate? What is the text about – empirically?What phenomenon is drawn out in the text?  A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “inf

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The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity and UFO’s in the American Uncanny by Susan LepselterWhat is the text about – empirically? What phenomenon is drawn out in the text?  A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics?