Abstract
SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the monograph, grounded in extended ethnography; describes the rationale for its format; outlines basic characteristics of primary and secondary field sites; explains the purpose served by selecting life story excerpts from 24 randomized narrators; summarizes the story behind the monograph’s title; presents snippets of “people in the data” through extreme cases and events that extend beyond structural vulnerability into experiences much like our own, yet more severe in social adversity. Two monograph data sources are described, the Migrant Worker Risk Study and the Drug Use Onset Study. In the latter project, Narrative Life Stories were taped and transcribed. Men and women currently or once active in farm labor comprise the sample of 127 narrators, who at the time of their interview were using or had previously used drugs and/or alcohol.
Keywords:
Being there, breadbasket, casual site, Drug Use Onset Study, emergent discovery, emergent sampling, extended ethnography, farm labor, field, house of habitus, industrial farming, life stories, Migrant Worker Risk Study, mobile colonialism, primary site, randomized narrators, secondary site, social exclusion, structural vulnerability, text, voiceless/invisible.
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Authors:Bentham Science Books