Criminology 4513 Ethnography & Crime fall 2024, MWF 12.30 --> 1.20 TBA  Outline  Classlist


week one 9.04-06 labour day
wed--intro
fri--no class
week five 9.30-04 NatDayRecon
mon--no class
wed-- ch04, homelessness
fri-- ch05, militarism
week nine 10.28-01
mon--ch11, deception
wed--xtra
fri-- xtra
week thirteen 11.25-29
mwf--
this week is for
presentations
week two 9.09-13 theme: intro
mon--  xtra: ch05 deborah
wed-- cont; ch01-3 steve
fri-- cont; xtra: 
week six 10.07-11 proposal due
mon-- ch06, terrorism
wed-- xtra: witness
fri-- xtra
week ten 11.04-08
mon-- ch12, risktaking
wed-- xtra
fri-- noclass
week fourteen 12.02-04 5th last
mwf--
this week is for
presentations
week three 9.16-20 theme: intro
mon-- ch01, confessions
wed-- Q1
fri-- cont. 
week seven 10.14-18 Thanksgiving
mon--no class
wed-- ch07, genderwork
fri-- ch08, sexwork
week eleven 11.11-15 ReadingWk
no classes
week fifteen 12.09-13 ExamWk
12.12 2pm
week four 9.23-27 theme: margins
mon-- ch02, verstehen
wed--
fri-- ch03, marginality
week eight 10.21-25
mon-- ch09, crackdealers
wed-- ch10, marijuana
fri-- xtra, maryellen
week twelve 11.18-22
mon-- ch13, confessions
wed-- xtra, killmethod
fri-- xtra
xtra: photo-grief project
xtra, SJpoor; homeless toronto
xtra: Canada's Stonewall

Assignments:
Q1, 9.18, "For a written response due fri as a handin or email, please look at videos for 'gang leader for a day', in particular interviews and presentations by/with Sudhir Venkatesh. Discuss what challenges he faced, and insights he gained during his research, and reference the videos used. "

Some video resources:

"Ethnography the basics, a beginners guide to ethnographic methods in PhD and masters degree research," 12 mins, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9djTFLM9-o
"Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway," 12 mins, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV0jY5VgymI&t=645s
"Ethnography: Entering the Field," 15 mins, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWHfmLiLtE
"Learning by Living Together-Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Thai Highlands," 6 mins, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxsu2Ikkio
"Ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel's ideas made simple, a beginners guide," 10 mins, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QBnEseRaWc
"Overcoming Shame Using Black Studies & Autoethnography | Dr. Katie Dieter | TEDxIndianaUniversity," 18 mins, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifcH91tjIgQ
"Ethnography," D. Lorin Mayo, 2017, 6mins
"Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews," Qualitative Research, 2024, link
"Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on identifying physical features," 2024, The Conversation, link
"Gang Leader for a Day: Sudhir Venkatesh - YouTube," 2008, 4 mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRq1AhFAN-4
"Interview with Professor Sudhir Venkatesh discussing Gang leader for a day," 2023, 36 mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxnnqFWalxU
Banksy graffiti, https://www.streetartbio.com/artists/banksy/

Web-posts
:
"Why gonzo journalism is crucial to our understanding of cities and their tribes," Bradley L Garrett, The Guardian, 5.20.2015 link

Books

Ethnography At The Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research, edited by Jeff Ferrell, Mark S. Hamm, googlebooks

Articles

"Cultural Criminology," Jeff Ferrell, Annual Review of Sociology, 25, 1999, 395-418 https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.soc.25.1.395
"Time-rich: 1960s counterculture and time as affluence in a dropout community in Hawai‘i," Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8, 3, 2018. link
"How I learned what a crock was," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22, 1, 1993. link

City beautiful movement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful_movement