By: Raphael Samuel on September 30, 2013
Posted by: Raphael Samuel. In the “Doing Sensory Ethnography”, author Sarah Pink adapts a scholarly approach in documenting and assessing the many changes unfolding in the field of ethnography. To further help her audience process these development, pink also draws on her own experiences in research in the field of ethnography. The book is very…
By: David Toth on September 25, 2013
In the book Good to Great and The Social Sectors Jim Collins makes the case that greatness is a framework that belongs to both business and the social sectors. He writes that his “Good to Great” principles do indeed work in the social sectors even better than he anticipated. He continues to relate five questions that are…
By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
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By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
Richard Volzke: A Visual Ethnographer rvolzke: A Visual Ethnographer While reading Doing Visual Ethnography by Pink this week, the quote “a picture is worth 1000 words” kept coming to mind. Pink primarily focuses on photographic interpretation of society and culture and after reading the book, it dawned on me that visual ethnography has…
By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
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By: Julie Dodge on September 23, 2013
“Images are ‘everywhere’. They permeate our academic work, everyday lives, conversations, our imagination and our dreams.” So Sarah Pink opens her approach to Doing Visual Ethnography (2007). Pink walks the reader through a conceptualization of conducting ethnography through the use of visual tools such as photography, video, existing visual images, and using various approaches including…
By: Mark Steele on September 21, 2013
Good to Great by Jim Collins has been one of my favorite leadership books ( Collins 2001). I Have had the opportunity to take a number of team members through the principles Collins articulates. One principle in particular, “getting the right people on the bus,” has challenged me for many years. I remember one of…
By: John Woodward on September 20, 2013
My reading of Sarah Pink’s Doing Sensory Ethnography gave the sensation of entering into an entirely new universe. As a good ethnographer, I took Pink’s advice to heart of not “being completely prepared…before starting” (Kindle Ed. 1121), I ventured into this new world, totally oblivious to what I would find. What I found was a world disorientating…
By: Sam Stephens on September 20, 2013
“Good is the enemy of Great” (Collins 2001). Most companies are good and are satisfied to remain that way while the possibilities and potential lies before them to move to a level of greatness. Jim Collins, following a thorough research of the subject argues in his book Good To Great that it is only a leader…
By: Clint Baldwin on September 20, 2013
Sarah Pink’s Doing Sensory Ethnography I found to be a remarkably refreshing text on methodological practice/process. Pink’s willingness to explore and utilize an interdisciplinary approach – or rather, a multidisciplinary approach – marked by rigor, exploration and candor is vital material needed in both the academy and in the broader world. For too long, too…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on September 20, 2013
Reading Doing Sensory Ethnography, by Sarah Pink is a great eye opener to see where I need make changes in my approach to ministry and a great tool for my future research. I appreciate that Pink clearly depict the limitation of classical observational methods for ethnography. Sara Delamount, defines of ethnography as something done by…
By: Julie Dodge on September 20, 2013
Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about their experiences while living in Minnesota. During the discussion the topic of lutefisk came up. For those not familiar with lutefisk, it is fish soaked in lye. The lye preserves it, makes it gelatinous, and depending on the type of original fish, for example cod, can be…
By: gfesadmin on September 20, 2013
Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about their experiences while living in Minnesota. During the discussion the topic of lutefisk came up. For those not familiar with lutefisk, it is fish soaked in lye. The lye preserves it, makes it gelatinous, and depending on the type of original fish, can be particularly pungent. Lutefisk…
By: Michael Badriaki on September 20, 2013
I shot the photograph above while on a trip to East Africa. The context in which the image was taken in is extremely meaningful because it is profoundly familiar, significant and it evokes many emotions. In an effort to understand more about visual ethnography and reality, I decided to study the photo of colorful T-shirts…
By: Sharenda Roam on September 20, 2013
“How do you create a climate where the truth is heard? (74) This question, asked by Jim Collins, the author of the book Good to Great intrigued me. Especially as it relates to a question one of my college students in my “World Religions” class asked me recently. He wanted to know, after studying all…
By: Carol McLaughlin on September 20, 2013
I have a confession. This book had me before I reached the end of the first page in the Introduction. Three simple words: place, memory, and imagination did it for me. If sensory ethnography includes these things then I am “in.” When we think about senses we think of the five senses we grew up…
