Participatory Approaches for Ethnography: Integrative Alternatives to Dichotomizing Reality (original) (raw)

Abstract

Objectivism and disciplinarity pervade society owing to their exploitative colonial origins. Ethnography and land planning are transdisciplinary processes of design. Tools and their users can appear more objective or sensational when dissociated from intention and context, particularly when the product and its “consumption” is associated with novel realizations in culture and technology. Surveying interdisciplinary literature, ethnographic films, and action research, I compare ethnographers with land planners to explore the following errors with the notion of objectivism: 1) false dichotomy for understanding reality and consciousness 2) separation from context rejects valid experiential “subjective” insight 3) Objectivism beguiles people to assume “objective” tools will always yield objective results 4) Objectivism is disposed to using “others” for research consumptively and in some cases, exploitatively Emerging alternative realizations for consciousness, epistemology, and ethnography suggest participatory approaches as more credible and ethical for conducting research, recording, and “consuming” information."

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