Unlike for other forms of qualitative data, examples of how fieldnotes are analysed are rarely provided in the literature. Using fieldnotes from my ethnographic
study of the production of public space on London's South Bank as a starting
point, this paper considers why this might be the case. In particular, the paper argues that for ...
Unlike for other forms of qualitative data, examples of how fieldnotes are analysed are rarely provided in the literature. Using fieldnotes from my ethnographic
study of the production of public space on London's South Bank as a starting
point, this paper considers why this might be the case. In particular, the paper argues that for fieldnote-based research, analysis is a feature of note-taking, rather
than a discrete phase of activity conducted using our fieldnotes once they have
been collected. In this vein, the paper encourages researchers to be aware of the
analytical in their fieldnotes, and to be open to the ways that analysis inside the
notebook can help us identify salient objects of enquiry in our work.
