Stories and Plays: Ethnography, Performance and Ethical Engagements

Authors

  • Dara Culhane Simon Fraser University

Keywords:

experimental ethnography, performance studies, ethics, community-based research, Downtown Eastside Vancouver

Abstract

This article offers an account of an intentionally
Utopian ethnographic project, carried out in Vancouver's Down-
town Eastside. The "Stories and Plays Project" explored con-
ditions of possibility for experiencing ethical engagements
between researchers and research subjects in a context of deeply
commodified research relationships dominated by biomedical
and pharmaceutical research, and advanced marginalization.
Articulating ethnography and performance methodologies
within a framework shaped by improvisation as concept and
practice, and committed to ethical-political relations of field-
work processes over representational products, the project
included an alternative, three-stage consent process. This arti-
cle draws on current debates about theorizing fieldwork,
engages in interdisciplinary debate, and seeks to provoke reflec-
tions on a "new," emerging experimental ethnography.

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Published

2022-03-15

How to Cite

Culhane, D. (2022). Stories and Plays: Ethnography, Performance and Ethical Engagements. Anthropologica, 53(2), 257–274. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/956

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 2 (2011): New Directions in Experimental and Engaged Ethnography

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Copyright (c) 2011 Dara Culhane

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