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Why Ethnography and Politics Are a Necessary Match Why Ethnography and Politics Are a Necessary Match
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How Different Organizations Close Down, Open Up, and Shape Political Communication How Different Organizations Close Down, Open Up, and Shape Political Communication
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Learning Participation, Displacing Politics? Learning Participation, Displacing Politics?
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“Politics” in the Making … and Not “Politics” in the Making … and Not
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Theorizing Politics through Ethnographic Evidence Theorizing Politics through Ethnographic Evidence
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Unanswered Questions and Current Challenges Unanswered Questions and Current Challenges
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51 Ethnography of Politics and Political Communication: Studies in Sociology and Political Science
Get accessEeva Luhtakallio, PhD, sociologist and research fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland, is specialized in research, methods, and theorizing of comparative and political sociology. Her book Practicing Democracy: Local Activism and Politics in France and Finland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) analyzes the local politicization processes in two cultural contexts.
Nina Eliasoph is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life (Cambridge University Press 1998) and Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare's End (Princeton University Press 2011).
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Published:02 September 2014
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Abstract
The ethnographic approach has particular potential for studying political communication through enlarging understandings of political institutions and expanding definitions of “politics.” First, widening institutional understanding takes advantage of ethnography’s capacity to open windows that traditional analysis of political institutions leaves shut. Second, ethnography is uniquely able to examine new forms of engagement that people have not yet defined as “politics.” Third, studying political communication ethnographically means expanding the modes of communication and activity examined to include nonverbal and virtual communication. Politics is one of the principal arenas in which “culture” unfolds and becomes observable, yet in ways that are not limited to political institutions or decision-making practices. Common to political ethnographies is the capability to show how “how” and “why” are linked: how a political process or practice takes place enables finding out why it does.
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