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“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Prior studies show how race, class, and…
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a major…
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Human life is increasingly quantified. From blood pressure to body mass index,…
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is about a journey that I took with my mother as…
Places of belonging: Rethinking coexistence from oriental barbershops in a Finnish city
Places of belonging: Rethinking coexistence from oriental barbershops in a Finnish city Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article discusses how migrant businesses actively contribute to the negotiation of everyday coexistence…
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In a special issue in Ethnography, the question was raised how to…
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This photo essay explores the practice of digital self-portraiture as an epistemological practice. Drawing on the…
Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown
Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a Fossil Fuel Boomtown Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. COVID-19 has radically reshaped the labor dreams of many workers.…
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The field site is the retail showrooms of a fast-expanding organized retail company selling budget eyewear products across…
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on a digital ethnography on the imageboard platform 4chan/pol, this article…
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper presents a mode of collaboration between a researcher and research…
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Borrowing from scholarship on emotional labor,…
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Matrilineal practices constitute an important aspect of the social organization among the Minangkabau…
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is an ethnographic study of a sakan shababiyy––a non-familial domestic…
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States Ethnography, Ahead of Print. By comparing changes in New Year’s celebrations among Hmong in…
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper adds to the limited number of studies about physical autonomy and…
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Many ethnographers had to reconceptualize or withdraw from their fieldwork due to COVID-19.…
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The immersive ethnographic tradition has strong potential to contribute…
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This research suggests three ways in which hybrid ethnography can be used to overcome the shortcomings of single-realm ethnography,…