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Some great ethnographic texts.

So I’ve been running a bunch of research sessions this week, which have been going quite well, but I’m also getting stuck into the literature of ethnographic practices.  As these two books have been occupying much of my headspace. One is this, Ethnography for Marketers by Hy Mariampolski.  It came highly recommended by Erietta Sapounakis […]

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Chomsky vs Žižek. Empiricism vs Philosophy/Theorists. Get the popcorn.

Oh this is just superb.  I am totally chuffed today because (thanks to Katie Hepworth) I have stumbled across a rich vein of both name-calling and insight in the great debate about the value of empiricism vs ‘theory’ or philosophy.  And, gloriously, taken up by two giants of their respective fields:  Noam Chomsky and Slavoj […]

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