Developing indifference: Youth, place-making and belonging in a transforming urban China
Developing indifference: Youth, place-making and belonging in a transforming urban China This article examines the social impacts of urban change among a generation of people for whom it is the…
An exhibition in fieldwork form
An exhibition in fieldwork form This is an exhibition of fieldwork art adapted to the page. It is set out following the typical stages of an anthropological research project and…
Walk a Mile in My Shoes! An Autoethnographical Perspective of Urban Walkability in Galway
Walk a Mile in My Shoes! An Autoethnographical Perspective of Urban Walkability in Galway Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The need to reverse the harmful economic, social and…
Bodily ethnography: Some epistemological challenges of participation
Bodily ethnography: Some epistemological challenges of participation Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Bodily participation provides insights that mere observation cannot offer. Based on an ethnographic vignette, this article explores how bodily…
Between speaking and enduring: The ineffable life of bitterness among rural migrants in Shanghai
Between speaking and enduring: The ineffable life of bitterness among rural migrants in Shanghai In the Maoist period, the Chinese socialist state encouraged the genre of “speaking bitterness” in order…
The affective life of the Nanjing Massacre: Reactivating historical trauma in governing contemporary China
The affective life of the Nanjing Massacre: Reactivating historical trauma in governing contemporary China Under the current Xi administration, China has marked December 13 as the national public Memorial Day…
Politics of indifference: Mourning Wang Yue in late-socialist China
Politics of indifference: Mourning Wang Yue in late-socialist China This article examines the changing sociological meaning of indifference in urban China after the tragic death of a two-year-old girl in…
“Bureaucratic shiyuzheng”: Silence, affect, and the politics of voice in China
“Bureaucratic shiyuzheng”: Silence, affect, and the politics of voice in China In the Chinese bureaucracy, where political imperatives for maintaining harmony require people to restrain negative affects, officials often express…
Affect, sociality, and the construction of paternalistic citizenship among family caregivers in China
Affect, sociality, and the construction of paternalistic citizenship among family caregivers in China In recent years, the Chinese state has made family members care for and manage persons diagnosed with…
Fluctuating affect: Purpose and deflation in paths of self-development
Fluctuating affect: Purpose and deflation in paths of self-development This article spotlights the role of affect in paths of “self-development,” focusing on young adults in China who engage in various…
Shameless modernity: Reflexivity and social class in Chinese personal growth groups
Shameless modernity: Reflexivity and social class in Chinese personal growth groups Critical scholars suggest that self-help psychology discourages political activism and encourages entrepreneurship by promoting a “positive” attitude. This article…
Troubling emotions in China’s psy-boom
Troubling emotions in China’s psy-boom The rise of psychological counseling, 心理咨询, as part of China’s unfolding psy-boom has brought with it a new discourse of distress. In particular, this article…
Introduction: The politics of negative affects in post-Reform China
Introduction: The politics of negative affects in post-Reform China If there is such a thing as a dominant public sphere in post-reform China, its emotional tonality has often been described…
Art, affect, and art effects
Art, affect, and art effects Go to Source
Energy and the ethnography of everyday life: A methodology for a world that matters
Energy and the ethnography of everyday life: A methodology for a world that matters Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ecological sustainability is identified as one of the greatest challenges of the…
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This research examines how feelings of body dissatisfaction arise,…
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Over the past year, COVID-19 and the restrictions imposed in its wake have meant that a…
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Presented as a collaborative reflexive account, this article has evolved through a…
Ethnography, Tactical Responsivity and Political Utility
Ethnography, Tactical Responsivity and Political Utility Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, we address issues of attribution, utility, and accountability in ethnographic research. We examine the…
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Methodological literature on ethnographies of the…