Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Prison visitation transportation services perform an important yet…
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Findings discussed in this article addressed a gap in the literature on cannabis…
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Anthropologists increasingly turn to design research for inspiration. Yet work in design anthropology is frequently cut off…
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) (Centar za mirovne studije – CMS)…
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this study, I…
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Following critiques of anthropologists’ involvement in colonialism and insufficient attention to power, friendship, solidarity, and closeness have become implicit…
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines minority citizens’ attempts of civic participation in the working-class banlieue of…
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Sociologists have long known that wages are not all that attract highly skilled…
Researching While Trans: Being Clocked and Cooling Cistress
Researching While Trans: Being Clocked and Cooling Cistress Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I investigate how predominantly cisgender and straight participants of a university LGBT…
From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness
From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article offers a reflection on a certain variant of…
On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry
On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Designed based on careful specifications and regulations, commercial refrigerators can be…
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The aim…
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper explores the new sexy maternity phenomenon in Taiwan’s neoliberal context, focusing on…
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties Ethnography, Ahead of Print. China’s social changes have altered the family structure of rural villagers, leading to increasing numbers of…
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines how five male waste pickers in Khorramabad, Iran, negotiate the stigmatization and criminalization associated…
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper revisits discussions about the pursuit of a singular location for…
Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”
Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking” Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article deploys Bourdieu’s conceptualization of habitus to examine how fighters at a Muay Thai/Kickboxing…
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-19
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-19 Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Each year the United States government detains and deports hundreds of thousands…