Rapid Ethnographies
A Practical Guide

Based on real case studies, this is the first practical guide to rapid ethnographies, exploring their history, design and implementation.

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros (Author)

9781108736992, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 January 2021

275 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1 cm, 0.307 kg

Rapid ethnographies are used in a wide range of fields to speed up research quickly and effectively. This book is the first practical guide to rapid ethnographies, helping readers to improve skills in the design, implementation, dissemination and use of findings generated through rapid ethnographic research. It gives advice and guidelines for carrying out rapid and rigorous research and provides details of tools used in the field. Vignettes reflecting on the author's research are included throughout, including observations on research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, to highlight how challenges of conducting rapid ethnographies can be overcome. Case studies across a range of subjects are also included, to demonstrate how rapid ethnographies can be applied in practice. With its useful tools and easy-to-read format, it will be used by teachers and students, as well as researchers wanting to successfully implement rapid ethnographies in their own work.

1. Introduction
2. Key debates in the field of rapid ethnographies
3. A brief history of the work prior to rapid ethnographies
4. Rapid ethnographies as a lone researcher
5. Team-based rapid ethnographies
6. Ethics, practical considerations and emotional labour of ethnographic fieldwork
7. Dissemination and the use of findings
8. The future of rapid ethnographies.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Health psychology [MBNH9], Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC]