Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction. New Writers of the Cultural Sage: From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical Praxis 1 Stephen Gilbert Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin I.Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives 2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor 13 Bruce Horner 3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning 35 Mary Jo Reiff 4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies 53 Christopher Schroeder 5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical Ethnography 73 Gwen Gorzelsky 6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical Education 99 Lynée Lewis Gaillet vii C O N T E N T S II. Place-Conscious Ethnographies: Situating Praxis in the Field 7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies 115 Robert Brooke and Charlotte Hogg 8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism? 131 John Sylvester Lofty 9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that “Makes a Difference” 157 Sharon McKenzie Stevens III.The Nomadic Self: Reorganizing the Self in the Field 10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition Classroom 183 Susan S. Hanson 11. Unsituating the Subject: “Locating” Composition and Ethnography in Mobile Worlds 201 Christopher Keller 12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal 219 Janet Alsup IV. Ethnographies of Cultural Change 13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and Representation 241 Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller 14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary 259 Lance Massey viii Contents V.Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices 15. The Ethics of Reading Critical Ethnography 285 Min-Zhan Lu 16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical Ethnography 299 Stephen Gilbert Brown List of Contributors 317 Index 323 ix Contents ...