Bricolage and bricoleur /

In simple terms, bricolage is understood as a practice of making do with the materials one has at hand. The bricoleur is someone who engages in this practice. The use of these terms in a research environment originated in anthropology and has, over time, accrued additional meanings. It is now a term...

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Main Author: Yardley, Ainslie
Other Authors: Atkinson, Paul, 1947- (Editor), Delamont, Sara, 1947- (Editor), Cernat, Alexandru (Editor), Sakshaug, Joseph W. (Editor), Williams, Richard A., active 2020 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020.
Series:Alternative qualitative methods.
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Summary:In simple terms, bricolage is understood as a practice of making do with the materials one has at hand. The bricoleur is someone who engages in this practice. The use of these terms in a research environment originated in anthropology and has, over time, accrued additional meanings. It is now a term that encompasses a diverse collection of complexity-sensitive methods and theoretical positions used in qualitative inquiry across a wide range of research disciplines, from critical pedagogy, social ecology, and theory of entrepreneurship to architecture, biology, and remix studies. Bricolage is characterised by the transdisciplinary, multiperspectival nature of its discourse, by its responsiveness to contextual contingency, by its continually evolving processes and practice, and by the absence of any single normative framework for evaluating its ...
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781529746990
152974699X
9781526421036
1526421038