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  • Nomadic Cinema

    A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film

    by Alison Griffiths ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    From In Borneo, the Land of the Head-Hunters to The Epic of Everest to Camping Among the Indians, the early twentieth century was the heyday of expedition filmmaking. As new technologies transformed global transportation and opened new avenues for documentation, and as imperialism and capitalism expanded their reach, Western filmmakers embarked on journeys to places they saw as exotic, seeking to ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs

    The Life of Velma Johnston

    by David Cruise, Alison Griffiths ...
    The true story of the intrepid woman whose life-long determination to protect America’s mustangs captured the heart of the country.In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had been rounded up and were to be slaughtered for pet food. Shocked and angered by this gruesome discovery, she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shivers Down Your Spine

    Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View

    by Alison Griffiths ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking. What unites and defines many of these wondrous spaces ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mothering for Schooling

    by Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Carceral Fantasies

    Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America

    by Alison Griffiths ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before 1935, Alison Griffiths explores the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Institutional Ethnography as Practice

    by Marie L. Campbell, Marjorie L. DeVault, Tim Diamond, Lauren Eastwood, Alison Griffith, Liza McCoy, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Ellen Pence, George W. Smith, Dorothy E. Smith, Susan Turner1, Douglas Weatherbee2, Alex J. Wilson3 ...
    In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the book aims to provide ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Simply Institutional Ethnography

    Creating a Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith, Alison I. Griffith ...
    Series series Institutional Ethnography
    Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus.Simply Institutional Ethnography is written by two pioneers in the field and grounded in decades of ground-breaking work. Dorothy Smith and Alison Griffith lay out the basics ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Under New Public Management

    Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work

    Edited by Alison I. Griffith, Dorothy E. Smith ...
    The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.In these fields, organizations have increasingly adopted private-sector management ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    A Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Organizational Ethnography

    Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life

    Edited by Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels, Frans H Kamsteeg ...
    Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people′s daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the ′everyday-ness′ of work is organized and how, in turn, work itself organizes ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Social Research

    by Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers

    Bridging Differences

    by Joey Sprague ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how ... Read more

    $46.99 USD