Emergent publics,critical ethnographic scholarship and race and ethnic relations |
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Authors: | Michael Keith |
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Institution: | 1. centre.director@compas.ox.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This article asks what might be the possibilities and the limits of what academic research might strive for when we engage with the politics of race. It argues for a reflexive engagement with the historically sensitive production of critical ethnographic knowledge. Ethnography and the anthropological tradition, challenged in much politically progressive literature on race and ethnicity as a form of exoticism, a medium of orientialism and a field of misrepresentation, need to be considered in interdisciplinary traditions of knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences that examine efficacy and causality as central concepts of analysis. |
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Keywords: | public sociology politics and ethics of research critical social theory ethnography urbanism |
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