Telling Stories, Forging Links, and Researching Lives

摘要: This chapter maps the issues and tensions, theoretical methodological, to which this book responds. The author describes her own experiences as a visual art pedagogue in notoriously violent impoverished South Bronx Junior High School. Through ethnographic tale, she begins contextualise need for educational research area of youth identities material culture (VMC). In particular, Eglinton underlines disconnection between cultural experiences, theory, pedagogy, empirical studies that examine young people’s use VMC. Drawing on Hall’s (The local global: globalization ethnicity. McClintock A, Mufti Shohat E (eds) Dangerous liaisons: gender, nation, post-colonial perspectives. University Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp 173–187, 1997a) global postmodern, place or locality key conceptual tool, argues more relational understanding engagement with VMC: one involving VMC, social physical geographies people live with/in through. second part chapter, focus turns methodology: refers ‘new’ ethnographies (e.g. Lather PA, Postmodernism, post-structuralism post (critical) ethnography: ruins, aporias angels. Atkinson P, Coffey Delamont S, Lofland J, L Handbook ethnography. Sage, London, 477–492, 2001) ‘multi-sited’ (Marcus G, Ethnography through thick thin. Princeton Princeton, 1998), participatory, visual-based ethnography used study; particular attention is paid methods well around authority representation. concludes aims outline book.