“I Don’t Come Here Just for the Food”: Manifestations of Care in Food Assistance Initiatives
“I Don’t Come Here Just for the Food”: Manifestations of Care in Food Assistance Initiatives Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper seeks to understand the social role…
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I describe two fieldwork experiences…
Having a Laugh and Negotiating the Situation: The Significance of Humor During Fieldwork Among International Teenagers
Having a Laugh and Negotiating the Situation: The Significance of Humor During Fieldwork Among International Teenagers Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article elaborates on the significance of…
Navigating Academic Identity: Autoethnography of Otherness and Embarrassment Among First-Generation College Students
Navigating Academic Identity: Autoethnography of Otherness and Embarrassment Among First-Generation College Students Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. As a first-generation college student (FGCS), I have never felt entirely…
Climate Activism and the Destabilization of Business-as-Usual in Milan, Italy
Climate Activism and the Destabilization of Business-as-Usual in Milan, Italy Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The aim of this article is to describe and analyse how climate activists…
Ethnography beyond the tribe: from immersion to “committed localism” in the study of relational work
Ethnography beyond the tribe: from immersion to “committed localism” in the study of relational work Ethnography beyond the tribe: from immersion to “committed localism” in the study of relational workIrene Skovgaard-SmithJournal of…
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. There are two aims in writing this paper. Firstly, I reflect on several incidents that highlighted for…
Autoethnographic reflections on creating inclusive and collaborative virtual places for academic research
Autoethnographic reflections on creating inclusive and collaborative virtual places for academic research Autoethnographic reflections on creating inclusive and collaborative virtual places for academic researchCristina-Alexandra Trifan, Roxane de Waegh, Yunzi Zhang, Can-Seng OoiJournal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol.…
Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography of the Undersea?
Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography of the Undersea? Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article relies on an ethnography of commercial divers that involves the author’s training,…
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article I focus on stigma, and more specifically on territorial stigma in a…
Political sensitivity and autoethnography: a case on negotiating the personal political front
Political sensitivity and autoethnography: a case on negotiating the personal political front Political sensitivity and autoethnography: a case on negotiating the personal political frontYunzi ZhangJournal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print,…
The politics of smiling: the interplay of emotion, power and discourse in sensegiving and sensemaking
The politics of smiling: the interplay of emotion, power and discourse in sensegiving and sensemaking The politics of smiling: the interplay of emotion, power and discourse in sensegiving and sensemakingYi ZhuJournal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print,…
Learning under lockdown: sensing, feeling and learning to work from home
Learning under lockdown: sensing, feeling and learning to work from home Learning under lockdown: sensing, feeling and learning to work from homeJulian Waters-Lynch, Cameron DuffJournal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. ahead-of-print,…
Beyond methodology: unveiling multisited entrepreneurship
Beyond methodology: unveiling multisited entrepreneurship Beyond methodology: unveiling multisited entrepreneurshipBas Becker, Carel RoessinghJournal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, ethnography has primarily been portrayed as a challenge for the…
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is based on…
Someone not exactly like the others: The animal’s status
Someone not exactly like the others: The animal’s status Debate about the status of animals has long impassioned theologians and philosophers. Are other animals “subjects” sharing the same rights as…
Logic of myth and action: The Canela Messianic Movement of 1963
Logic of myth and action: The Canela Messianic Movement of 1963 The first White man, so runs the Ramkokamekra Canela myth, was Aukê, a miraculous Indigenous boy who ends up…
From identity to ID card: Becoming a woman (and) Indigenous in Bolivia
From identity to ID card: Becoming a woman (and) Indigenous in Bolivia I met Brigida in 2015. At the time, she presented herself as a young gay man, somewhat androgynous,…
Afterword: Pandemic governance in China
Afterword: Pandemic governance in China This article outlines China’s pandemic governance as an ever-changing assemblage of old and new techniques, material forms, and organizational structures over the course of three…
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis: Part 1–Ikoni
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis: Part 1–Ikoni The Karimojong prophet Apaokere was called by Divinity in a dream to sacrifice. In this vision, Divinity instructed him…