Ode to the City An Ethnographic Drama [Paperback]

This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. The action focuses on the staff room in the library, where the fictionalised characters of four customer experience assistants, threatened with redundancy, take their lunch and tea breaks. The ethnographic drama is a creative curation of field notes, transcripts, audio recordings, video recordings, conversations and observations. It tells a story of political tension in everyday life at a time of austerity.

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This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. It is a creative curation of field notes, transcripts, audio recordings, video recordings, conversations, and observations.?The ethnographic drama?tells a story of political tension in everyday life at a time of austerity.

Adrian Blackledge is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Stirling, UK. He has published widely on both multilingualism and sociolinguistics. He was Birmingham Poet Laureate from 2014-2016.

Angela Creese is Professor of Linguistic Ethnography at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on multilingualism and ethnographic methods. Together with Adrian Blackledge she is the author of?Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography?(Multilingual Matters, 2019),Interpretations  An Ethnographic Drama?(Multilingual Matters, 2021) andVolleyball  An Ethnographic Drama(Multilingual Matters, 2021).

An innovative ethnographic drama produced from research material

If Brecht had done ethnography, it might well have turned out like this. Blackledge and Creese have always put the human centre-stage, here literally so: fieldwork becomes playscript to explore contexts personal and political in ways both inspired and inspirational for anyone seeking new ways to do research. I cant wait for their next production!Carefully distilled from ethnographic data, a mullC#