ELP 616 Collaborative Ethnographic Research Methods

Explores if and how a participatory and collaborative form of research will foster knowledge democracy, and give ownership to those whose knowledge it is. Methodologies covered are: different genres of qualitative methods, community-based planning and research, participatory action-research, Gaian participatory science, classical ethnography, auto-ethnography, ethnographic performance, life histories, feminist methodologies, and "dialogue circles."