AMST 8289, "Ethnographic Research Methods: Research Strategies in American Studies *Emphasis on Space, Place, and Region" will be taught spring 2011 by Professor Kale B. Fajardo on Thursdays 3:35-5:30 p.m. This graduate seminar will focus on ethnographic methods in the context of interdisciplinary, transnational, and postcolonial American Studies--especially in relation to space, place, and region.
AMST 8289 Ethnographic Research Methods: Research Strategies in American Studies
*Emphasis on Space, Place, and Region*
Spring 2011, Thursdays 3:35-5:30, with Professor Kale B. Fajardo -- kfajardo@umn.edu)
This graduate seminar will focus on ethnographic methods in the context of interdisciplinary, transnational, and postcolonial American Studies -- especially in relation to space, place, and region. Readings will stress contemporary ethnographies and cultural critique, including for example, Scott Herring's _Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism_; Anna L. Tsing's _Friction_; and Kathleen Stewart's _Ordinary Affects_. Students will also have the opportunity to read 3-5 ethnographies that are related to their specific project's field-location-or-region. A short-term participant-observation, oral history, or visual ethnographic project (based primarily in the Twin Cities) is also required. Graduate students from other inter/disciplines are welcome.
