Vanhala, Lisa;
Johansson, Angelica;
Butler, Frances;
(2022)
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back.
Global Environmental Politics
10.1162/glep_a_00652.
(In press).
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Abstract
What can an “ethnographic sensibility” contribute to research on climate change governance? With its emphasis on meaning making and understanding what may lie beneath more obvious interactions and processes, ethnographic methodologies, particularly collaborative event ethnography, are increasingly deployed to address complex questions and achieve conceptual leverage on issues related to climate governance. Drawing on literature in climate anthropology, material geography, and political ethnography, and with examples from our own fieldwork experiences, we devise a heuristic typology underpinned by an ethnographic sensibility to help guide the fieldwork phase of a research project. Building on the well-established practice of hanging out, we introduce hanging around, which attends to spatiality and matter; hanging in, which addresses issues of access and trust; and hanging back to guide the practice of reflexivity. We articulate what fieldwork with an ethnographic sensibility entails and discuss its potential and implications for climate governance research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1162/glep_a_00652 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00652 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145136 |
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