Talking Shit, Egos, and Tough Skin: Humor Among Elite Black Men
Talking Shit, Egos, and Tough Skin: Humor Among Elite Black Men Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Extant research considers humor integral to the Black experience. Previous work on…
Features and form: Appropriating digital storytelling for public ethnography
Features and form: Appropriating digital storytelling for public ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnography may have a unique capacity to capture the attention of non-academic publics, but if it remains…
Gendered Governmentalities and Neoliberal Logics: Latina, Immigrant Women in Healthcare and Social Services
Gendered Governmentalities and Neoliberal Logics: Latina, Immigrant Women in Healthcare and Social Services Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This ethnographic research with Latina, immigrant mothers and health care…
The construction of gender identity in Alevi organisations: Discourses, practices, and gaps
The construction of gender identity in Alevi organisations: Discourses, practices, and gaps Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The academic and lay interest towards Turkey’s Alevi community has so far treated the…
Governing beyond the closet: Remaking stigma, identity, and sexual behavior in a post-disciplinary rehab
Governing beyond the closet: Remaking stigma, identity, and sexual behavior in a post-disciplinary rehab Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Combining historical and ethnographic research, this article analyzes changing logics of control…
Rumor has it: Strategies for ethnographic analysis in authoritarian regimes
Rumor has it: Strategies for ethnographic analysis in authoritarian regimes Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Accurate information can be difficult to access in authoritarian regimes. As more and more countries fall…
Between narrative and practice: Storytelling as a way of knowing how to be in nature
Between narrative and practice: Storytelling as a way of knowing how to be in nature Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines the storytelling practices of adventurers as a means…
Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings
Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Taking as its point of departure extant concerns about the Eurocentric nature of sociological knowledge…
From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire
From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire Ethnography, Ahead of Print. For marginalised people living in Cape Town, South Africa, rapper Tupac Shakur…
Getting respect: How minority boxers build a hybrid masculinity in a French Banlieue
Getting respect: How minority boxers build a hybrid masculinity in a French Banlieue Ethnography, Ahead of Print. AbstractBased on an ethnographic study using participant observations and interviews in a Thai…
Leaving Gangs in Cape Town: Disengagement as Role Exit
Leaving Gangs in Cape Town: Disengagement as Role Exit Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. A lack of scholarship on gang leaving in Cape Town, South Africa creates the…
The Value of Five Cents: Mismatched Meaning Making at a Bottle and Can Redemption Center
The Value of Five Cents: Mismatched Meaning Making at a Bottle and Can Redemption Center Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Drawing on a year-long ethnography at a non-profit…
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores what it means to be…
Generation V: Millennial Vegans in Israel
Generation V: Millennial Vegans in Israel Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study asks how and why veganism becomes a way of constructing generational identities and worldviews. Focusing…
Temporalities at sea: Fast time and slow time onboard ocean-going merchant vessels
Temporalities at sea: Fast time and slow time onboard ocean-going merchant vessels Ethnography, Ahead of Print. There have been claims about how social acceleration affects us in different ways. However,…