Experiment Ethnography

On the creativity of a research approach

Abstract

Given all the criticism it faces, how does ethnography manage to continually reinvent itself in creative ways as a research strategy and mode of presentation? Recently, ethnography has (once again) become a field of experimentation in many places, with various strategies being used to describe complex societal developments and dynamic social fields. At the same time, ways are being sought to break away from extractivist research traditions and find collaborative forms of knowledge production. This volume presents contributions from a conference of the Gesellschaft für Ethnographie e.V. (Society for Ethnography). In the introduction, we explore some aspects of the experimental moment in ethnography and present the contents of the volume.