Counters the tendency toward narrative omniscience in critical ethnography by reexamining researcher voice in ethnographic text, rejecting the notion that the current crisis of representation is based on uncertainty about how best to describe a scene and arguing that the crisis stems from objectification. The paper extends the crisis from…

Explores the grounding of cultural critique in ethnography as a process of knowledge construction, using concepts from philosophy, anthropology, and sociology of knowledge to identify a theory of knowledge that may inform a postcritical ethnography. The paper proposes a critical ethnography that is more authentic both to its wider social project…