Ethnography Unbound

Stephen Gilbert Brown is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and author of Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands, also published by SUNY Press. Sidney I. Dobrin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. He has published many books in composition theory, including the SUNY Press title, Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition, (coauthored with Christian R. Weisser).

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction. New Writers of the Cultural Sage: From Postmodern Theory Shock to Critical PraxisStephen Gilbert Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin I. Theoretical and Rhetorical Perspectives 2. Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating LaborBruce Horner 3. Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric LearningMary Jo Reiff 4. The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern LiteraciesChristopher Schroeder 5. Shifting Figures: Rhetorical EthnographyGwen Gorzelsky 6. Writing Program Redesign: Learning from Ethnographic Inquiry, Civic Rhetoric, and the History of Rhetorical EducationLynée Lewis Gaillet II. Place-Conscious Ethnographies: Situating Praxis in the Field 7. Open to Change: Ethos, Identification, and Critical Ethnography in Composition StudiesRobert Brooke and Charlotte Hogg 8. State Standards in the United States and the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom: Political Siege Engines against Teacher Professionalism?John Sylvester Lofty 9. Debating Ecology: Ethnographic Writing that "Makes a Difference"Sharon McKenzie Stevens III. The Nomadic Self: Reorganizing the Self in the Field 10. Critical Auto/Ethnography: A Constructive Approach to Research in the Composition ClassroomSusan S. Hanson 11. Unsituating the Subject: "Locating" Composition and Ethnography in Mobile WorldsChristopher Keller 12. Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the PersonalJanet Alsup IV. Ethnographies of Cultural Change 13. Changing Directions: Participatory-Action Research, Agency, and RepresentationBronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller 14. Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic ImaginaryLance Massey V. Texts and (Con)Texts: Intertextual Voices 15. The Ethics of Reading Critical EthnographyMin-Zhan Lu 16. Beyond Theory Shock: Ethos, Knowledge, and Power in Critical EthnographyStephen Gilbert Brown List of Contributors Index