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    Exorcising an ethnography in limbo.

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    Authors
    Vigurs, Katy cc
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    Issue Date
    2019-01-07
    
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    Abstract
    I feel haunted; troubled by the ethnography that I conducted some years ago of a new partnership group that was attempting to set up a community learning centre. I’m aware that it doesn’t sound like a particularly alarming research topic, and perhaps that is where some of the issues began. I did not expect an ethnographic haunting to occur. The partnership recruited me less than a year into the creation of the project and I spent two years as a sort of ‘researcher in residence’. The original idea was that I would observe the initial development of the project and then, when the community learning centre was established, I would research the centre’s activities and how they were experienced by village residents. However, fairly soon into the project, problematic dynamics developed within the group, leading to irreconcilable conflict between members. The community learning centre was never established and I was left to piece together an ethnography of a failed partnership. Researching an increasingly dysfunctional partnership was an emotionally exhausting activity, especially when relationships between members became progressively hostile. Managing data collection and analysis at this time was difficult, but I was shocked that, a number of months (and now years) later, revisiting the data for publication purposes remained uncomfortable. I managed to produce my PhD thesis on the back of this study, but I have not felt able to go back to the data, despite there being findings worthy of publication. This ethnography is in a state of limbo and is at risk of becoming lost forever. In this chapter, I explore the reasons for this and discuss lessons learned for future projects.
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    Vigurs, K., (2019). ‘Exorcising an Ethnography in Limbo’. In Smith, R. J., and Delamont, S., (eds.). The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited., pp. 133-147.
    Publisher
    Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623380
    Additional Links
    https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/the-lost-ethnographies-robin-james-smith/?k=9781787147744
    Type
    Book chapter
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    9781787147744
    Collections
    Institute of Education Research Collection

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