Fieldwork In Transforming Societies

Download or read book Shadowing written by Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadowing offers an array of techniques to study people on the move, and the book is addressed to all social scientists interested in fieldwork as a way of grasping phenomena typical of late modernity. The book's starting point is that present times require different metaphors than static "cultures," "organizations," or even "societies." It is time to start constructing a mobile ethnology that is knowledge about people, objects, and ideas that circulate globally. The present text offers suggestions concerning the ways such construction may take.