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Book SynopsisLove in the Time of Ethnography explores love variously defined as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunnicouple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women coming home to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US,the common ground between Dogen'sZen teachings and Habermas''s critical theory, an Albanian Sufi community in Michigan and interactions between humans and the natural world. It also includes theoretical writing on the place of love in social analysis, whether this involves relationships between researchers and participants or the nature of human connection itself. The authors argue thatsocial research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one, and that fellow feeling is an essential component of making sense of the world.Along with more traditional scho
Trade ReviewLucinda Carspecken has brilliantly gathered a collection of ethnographers who take readers on an intimate scholarly journey in Love in the Time of Ethnography. She extends to us a different approach to ethnography that is not found elsewhere. This unique approach to social research centers on love—where love is simultaneously epistemological, ontological, axiological and topical as it is woven through every aspect of the scholarship. It hinges upon—and is the hinge that—makes the scholarly work (of the world) move. -- Penny Pasque, North Carolina State University
Table of ContentsPart I: Exploring the Concept of Love Chapter 1: Love in/for Nature: Biophilia, Topophilia, Solostalgia by Leslie E. Sponsel Chapter 2: Ethical Openness in Turkey: An Alevi Sunni Love Story by Lucinda Carspecken Chapter 3: The Indignation of Cariño: A Comparative Analysis of Movement Making Among Unapologetic Youth by Felipe Vargas Part II: Selves and Others Chapter 4: Love Lost and Found: A Sentimental History of American Medical Missionaries in China, 1905-1951 by Ian Skoggard Chapter 5: The Face You Wore by Michael Verde Chapter 6: We Are All Ships Coming Home to Ourselves; An Autoethnographic Poem in Two Parts by Jana Clarke and Barbara Dennis Chapter 7: The Honor of Loving Service: Caring for our Muslim Baba by Frances Trix Part III: Love as Knowing Chapter 8: Love in the Field: Reflections on the Role of Emotion in Qualitative Data Collection by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner Chapter 9: Rethinking “Research”: Insights from Zen Buddhism on Self, Compassion, and Freedom by Peiwei Li Chapter 10: Metanoia, Love and Ethnographic Poetry Written with Love from a Passing Train by Adam Henze Chapter 11: Metanoia; Violence, Love and Forgiveness in Ethnographic Writing by Phil Francis Carspecken
