Researching amongst elites challenges and opportunities in studying up

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Redirecting the academic gaze upward -- "Studying up" Wall Street: reflections on theory and methodology -- "Studying up" in the context of Civil War: understanding armed defense of the status quo -- Getting in and finding out: accessing and interviewing elites in business and work contexts -- Interviewing celebrities: strategies for getting beyond the sound bite -- Examining elites using qualitative media analysis: celebrity news coverage and TMZ -- Overlooking the workers: community leaders' perspectives on plant closures and economic recession -- The globality of globals: from floating to escape routes -- Studying immigrant entrepreneurs: from ordinary to big players in the transnational capitalist class -- Productive disorientation, or the ups and downs of embodied research -- A feminist researcher interviewing elite men: reflections on "studying up" and selling out -- Turning over rocks and unsettling memories: "studying up" Euro-Canadians in the spaces between cultures -- Methodological challenges faced when researching in hostile environments: the SAWP in a Canadian hinterland.