Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan
Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In 2000, one of Pakistan’s largest social movements began: a tenant struggle for land rights on the…
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Digital audio technologies have expanded the methodological possibilities for anthropological research. This article explores some of the implications of…
On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical
On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the following article, I explore how tarot card readers (and other…
Contractually Sterilized: Migrant Mothers and Carceral Politics in the Gulf Coast Cooperation (GCC) Countries
Contractually Sterilized: Migrant Mothers and Carceral Politics in the Gulf Coast Cooperation (GCC) Countries Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Migration to the Gulf Countries of the United Arab…
Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article theorizes the fieldwork experiences that I gained while…
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Caught in the context of a highly competitive…