Yusuke’s story: Journey, precarity, and coming of age in care
Yusuke’s story: Journey, precarity, and coming of age in care Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Child protection systems displace children’s social lives, marking an important space for understanding personhood and well-being.…
Making mistakes in ethnography
Making mistakes in ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Starting from the question: “How do mistakes arise in ethnography and how do they influence research trajectories?” this article makes a methodological…
From the presence of absence to the absence of presence: Violence and the practical consequences of nostalgia in Guatemala City
From the presence of absence to the absence of presence: Violence and the practical consequences of nostalgia in Guatemala City Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Nostalgia can provide its protagonists with…
“We are simply being pressed out, slowly but surely” – Unhoused peoples’ experience with exclusionary design
“We are simply being pressed out, slowly but surely” - Unhoused peoples’ experience with exclusionary design Ethnography, Ahead of Print. With interest in ‘what it is like to be subjected…
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Cooking and eating are dynamic practices whose study is well suited to resolve the paradox of…
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Previous scholarship on waste has identified lack of public knowledge as one of the greatest…
Being invited. Ethics in participant-researcher relationships
Being invited. Ethics in participant-researcher relationships Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines the act of ‘being invited’ by research participants to explore asymmetrical power relations and research ethics in…
Constructing responsibility: Infrastructural harm, citizen oversight and the politics of publics
Constructing responsibility: Infrastructural harm, citizen oversight and the politics of publics Ethnography, Ahead of Print. While concepts such as infrastructure and assemblage can make it difficult for scholars to locate…
Cleaning up shaʿbi: Music and class-cultural divides in cairo
Cleaning up shaʿbi: Music and class-cultural divides in cairo Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Egyptian shaʿbi music is typically positioned as a somewhat vulgar style produced and consumed by the working-class…
In honorary of Peter Geschiere, articulation of reproduction: Parents, daughters, and education in north Cameroonian society
In honorary of Peter Geschiere, articulation of reproduction: Parents, daughters, and education in north Cameroonian society Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 466-485, December 2024. As Peter Geschiere focussed in…
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 449-465, December 2024. The article provides an answer to fundamental questions of what qualifies…
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 505-522, December 2024. Peter Geschiere’s most recent writings have come to attend,…
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 486-504, December 2024. In southeastern Nigeria, Igbo-speaking people commonly assert that “a debt…
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience Ethnography, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 428-448, December 2024. Witchcraft has been described as knowledge that resists…
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article traces the intellectual trajectory of the anthropologist and Africanist Peter Geschiere,…
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this paper I argue that the method of participant observation is as…
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Coming as a collection of observations from the field, I used…
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa) Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Toponymic struggles are about forms of civic belonging that street names…
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Undertaking fieldwork in a remote location with limited health care and…
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Energy-ethnographies of ‘closed’ workplaces detail practices for achieving robust, authentic research. However,…