Ethnography in the Marketplace
Författare
Summary, in English
What happens when cultural analysis enters the world of applied research and academics become consultants working with corporations and public institutions? The divide between academic research and commercial ethnography has often hampered communication and critical exchanges between these two worlds.
In this paper we look at the experiences of consultants, drawing on Danish and Swedish examples. What can we learn from them when it comes to organizing research under time pressure, communicating results and making people understand the potentials of cultural analysis? And how could consultants “out there” benefit from a continuing dialogue with their colleagues in Academia?
In this paper we look at the experiences of consultants, drawing on Danish and Swedish examples. What can we learn from them when it comes to organizing research under time pressure, communicating results and making people understand the potentials of cultural analysis? And how could consultants “out there” benefit from a continuing dialogue with their colleagues in Academia?
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
31-49
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
Volym
2009
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Linköping University Electronic Press
Ämne
- Cultural Studies
Nyckelord
- applied research
- cultural analysis
- ethnography
- consumer studies
- academic identity
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2000-1525