Innovative learning and public ethnography

Phillip Vannini was awarded a Canada Research Chair grant for research to develop a better understanding of the nature of wilderness and wild places through a public ethnographic study.

The Canada Research in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography aims to re-envision the relation between ethnographic writing and contemporary ethnographic film-making in light of the current possibilities offered by advances in non-representational research strategies and digital audio-visual technology. The CRC will concentrate on expanding the non-representational audio-visual agenda and scope of public ethnography by diversifying its methodological strategies, furthering its mediated reach, and increasing its global audience. To achieve this goal, a multimodal public ethnographic study on the global socio-nature of wilderness will generate an engaging and theoretically sophisticated understanding of the nature of wilderness and wild places.