"Welcome to paradise" Methodological accentuations to the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Ethnography based on field notes from a refugees´ shelter
Rixta Wundrak
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Rixta Wundrak, "Welcome to paradise" Methodological accentuations to the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Ethnography based on field notes from a refugees´ shelter (2017), Beltz Juventa, 69469 Weinheim, ISSN: 2195-867X, 2017 #03, p.276
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Zusammenfassung: Aus einer teilnehmenden Beobachtung in einer Notunterkunft für asylsuchende Menschen in Berlin entstand ein Datenmaterial, das dazu dient, methodologische Überlegungen zu einer "Wissenssoziologischen Diskursethnographie" (WDE) weiter zu denken. Drei methodologische Akzente, die Montage, die Heterotopie und die Reflexivität, schlage ich vor, um eine Diskursanalyse voranzutreiben, die ethnographisch ansetzt. Mit diesen Konzepten möchte ich zeigen, wie "Willkommens"- und "Krisendeutungen" in diesem Kontext das Denken, Handeln und Fühlen der Menschen beeinflussen: Diskurse bestimmen Situationen in der Praxis aber auch umgekehrt: Wissensordnungen werden im Alltag interaktiv hergestellt.
Schlagwörter: Diskursforschung, Ethnographie, Europäische Migration, Flucht, Wissenssoziologie, Heterotopie, Triangulation
Summary: A shelter for refugees in Berlin, my experiences as a volunteer, and my participant observations as a researcher are the empirical setting I will refer to in outlining the "Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Ethnography" (SKADE). This case study shows how terms such as "welcoming" and "crisis" are becoming patterns of meaning in the shelter, and how these patters affect thinking, acting, and feeling. On a methodological level, I will show that discourses not only influence interactions, but conversely are formed and constructed interactively in practice. I present in detail three methodological propositions for SKADE: the montage, the heterotopia, and reflexivity, arguing that they can improve SKADE as an ethnographically informed discourse analysis.
Keywords: Discourse research, Ethnography, European Migration, Refugees, Sociology of Knowledge, Heterotopia, Triangulation
Schlagwörter: Diskursforschung, Ethnographie, Europäische Migration, Flucht, Wissenssoziologie, Heterotopie, Triangulation
Summary: A shelter for refugees in Berlin, my experiences as a volunteer, and my participant observations as a researcher are the empirical setting I will refer to in outlining the "Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Ethnography" (SKADE). This case study shows how terms such as "welcoming" and "crisis" are becoming patterns of meaning in the shelter, and how these patters affect thinking, acting, and feeling. On a methodological level, I will show that discourses not only influence interactions, but conversely are formed and constructed interactively in practice. I present in detail three methodological propositions for SKADE: the montage, the heterotopia, and reflexivity, arguing that they can improve SKADE as an ethnographically informed discourse analysis.
Keywords: Discourse research, Ethnography, European Migration, Refugees, Sociology of Knowledge, Heterotopia, Triangulation