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Immersion in Alien Worlds: Teaching Ethnographic Sensibilities through Dystopian and Science Fiction
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Direct linkFox, Katherine E. – Teaching Sociology, 2022
The Alien Worlds project teaches ethnographic skills using the societies of dystopian, postapocalyptic, and science fiction texts as imagined field sites and targets for analysis. These exercises and assignments, which illustrate principles of qualitative fieldwork, were developed when COVID-19 precautions made it impossible to assign tasks that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ethnography, Science Fiction, Sociology
