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Methods Tutorial
SoSe 22: Ethnographic and Journalistic Approaches to the “Middle East”
Kenneth Wayne Chitwood
Information for students
Course will be held online!
Comments
Ethnographers and journalists approach the topic of the “Middle East” from different epistemic, strategic, and stylistic perspectives. Where journalists might value fact and event-driven stories, ethnographers prefer interpretive, holistic, and theoretical approaches. Where journalists might see their role as being detached narrators loyal to various publics, ethnographers would see themselves as immersed, empathetic, participants, loyal to their interlocutors. Both ethnographers and journalists might also consider their own respective disciplines’ complicated histories in the region differently. This course is a methodological survey of the ethnographic literature on, and journalistic coverage of, the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas. The readings and lectures juxtapose, and put into conversation, journalistic and ethnographic descriptive work with the aim of critically appraising how writers of various kinds construct knowledge of this world region. Putting ethnography and journalism into conversation around particular themes, geographies, and methods, this course invites participants to consider what might be gleaned from the respective approaches of journalism and ethnography, what tensions might be observed between the two, what boundaries might be blurred, and what lessons might be learned and applied for future research, reporting, and understanding. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2022-04-21 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-04-28 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-05-05 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-05-12 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-05-19 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-06-02 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-06-09 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-06-16 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-06-23 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-06-30 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-07-07 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-07-14 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-07-21 16:00 - 18:00