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Urban Marginality and Ethnographic Practice: on the Ethics of Fieldwork

Urban Marginality and Ethnographic Practice: on the Ethics of Fieldwork URBAN HOMELESSNESS in the U.S. is a project that involves the political to domesticate social marginality and to institutionalize new exclusions, prohibitions and interdictions. Whether in the streets or in asylums, homelessness denotes a state of captivity and exposure where administrative discipline permeates social and personal practices that are normally exempt from regimentation and policing. This paper seeks to explore the possibilities for an ethical relation between observer and observed in the course of ethnographic practice among homeless and other similarly marginalized urban populations. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Urban Marginality and Ethnographic Practice: on the Ethics of Fieldwork

City & Society , Volume 8 (1) – Jun 1, 1996

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0893-0465
eISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1525/ciso.1996.8.1.108
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Abstract

URBAN HOMELESSNESS in the U.S. is a project that involves the political to domesticate social marginality and to institutionalize new exclusions, prohibitions and interdictions. Whether in the streets or in asylums, homelessness denotes a state of captivity and exposure where administrative discipline permeates social and personal practices that are normally exempt from regimentation and policing. This paper seeks to explore the possibilities for an ethical relation between observer and observed in the course of ethnographic practice among homeless and other similarly marginalized urban populations.

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City & SocietyWiley

Published: Jun 1, 1996

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