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Publication Date: 2020
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Calibrating the Go-Along for the Anthropocene
Scott, Nicholas A.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, v23 n3 p317-328 2020
This article contends that the 'go-along' contains more technical and ontological agility as a methodology for social research than is often assumed. After distinguishing the central spectrums of technical and ontological agility rooted in different research designs and philosophical orientations, I examine how researchers can nourish it while refining the go-along's moral purpose in the context of environmental and related mobility crises that define the Anthropocene. I argue researchers can cultivate the go-along's agility and moral purpose by deploying it with a quantitative context, comparing go-along case studies, moving past human supremacism and illuminating ecologically just forms of mobility that respect other species of life and their habitats. To show one way that the go-along can accomplish these things, I present two vignettes of cycling in urban Canada, drawing on a mobile video ethnography of cycling, a funded study in sociology, conducted between 2014 and 2018.
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Social Science Research, Mobility, Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Urban Areas, Theory Practice Relationship, Statistical Analysis, Case Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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