Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds
Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article contributes to ongoing conversations on digital ethnography as a methodological approach that in the last two decades…
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of guided tours in Svalbard, in this article I explore how…
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Despite the importance of both gender and elites in contemporary social life, few empirical works examine gender…
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article proposes a systematization of the within, between and beyond sites through which ethnographic field-making takes shape. It draws…
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Batswana (People of Botswana) traditionally celebrate the end of seasons with dikopelo musical performances. This paper discusses Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela’s…
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In France today, an increasing number of people consider themselves to be “survivalists.” Presuming…
Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians conducting ethnographic research
Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians conducting ethnographic research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. For clinicians conducting ethnographic research, conflict can arise between the clinical understanding…
The observer observed: Ethnographic discomforts and (a)symmetrical relationships in a digital ethnography
The observer observed: Ethnographic discomforts and (a)symmetrical relationships in a digital ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper engages in a reflection about the use of social media to carry…
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this autoethnography of ethnographic training and methodologies, I reflect upon unaddressed tensions in a Los…
The power of ethnographic toolkit in understanding transnational culture
The power of ethnographic toolkit in understanding transnational culture Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Intergenerational ethnographic research poses several practical, epistemological, and ethical challenges. This study seeks to address these complexities…
Ethnographic research of outer space: Challenges and opportunities
Ethnographic research of outer space: Challenges and opportunities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The scales and categories of human activity are always evolving. The analytical and practical challenges that they pose…
Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia
Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Palestine continues to be a contentious issue in and for Western higher education particularly in…
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper…
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper offers a glimpse into the affective work inherent in the practices, objects,…
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Since the ‘performative turn’ in social sciences, ethnographers have extensively studied…
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I explore the reflexive tensions of a Muslim…
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
I am anthropologist – But where is the field? On fieldwork, intimacy, and home
I am anthropologist – But where is the field? On fieldwork, intimacy, and home Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article was prompted by a question: how can one be anthropologist…
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’ Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper examines the tensions, struggles, and opportunities of doing ethnographies ‘at-home’. For the purpose of…