Fishes, red sludge, and wind in the Mediterranean. An ethnography of overturnings in the EU energy transition
Fishes, red sludge, and wind in the Mediterranean. An ethnography of overturnings in the EU energy transition Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article takes Sulcis, a Sardinian ex-mining sub-region, as…
Ethnosexual boundaries in the fergana valley: An ethnographic account of interethnic marriages in post-soviet central Asia
Ethnosexual boundaries in the fergana valley: An ethnographic account of interethnic marriages in post-soviet central Asia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper develops an ethnographically grounded framework for understanding ethnosexual…
Ethnography of the ‘Southern islands’: Arai Hakuseki, Ryukyuan diplomacy, and the making of ethnological knowledge in early modern Japan
Ethnography of the ‘Southern islands’: Arai Hakuseki, Ryukyuan diplomacy, and the making of ethnological knowledge in early modern Japan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study reexamines Arai Hakuseki’sNantōshi(Records of the…
Geological sores: minerals, toxicities, and rumors in DR Congo
Geological sores: minerals, toxicities, and rumors in DR Congo Ethnography, Ahead of Print. With a growing scholarship on post-industrialism, an ethnographic view about industrial mining industry in DR Congo remains…
Entangled positionality: Relational ethnography and interconnected small worlds in sports coaching research
Entangled positionality: Relational ethnography and interconnected small worlds in sports coaching research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper develops the concept of entangled positionality as a way of theorising how…
Catalyzed commoning: Boundary spanners and the politics of rural revitalization in China
Catalyzed commoning: Boundary spanners and the politics of rural revitalization in China Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on an ethnography of a northern Chinese village, this article examines how collective…
Emotion-as-method (EAM) in ethnographic research on collective trauma
Emotion-as-method (EAM) in ethnographic research on collective trauma Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnographic studies of collective trauma often overlook the ways emotion surfaces beyond speech, in silences, atmospheres, and bodily…
Uneventful ethnography and the unfolding fieldwork in search of digital nomads in rural Japan
Uneventful ethnography and the unfolding fieldwork in search of digital nomads in rural Japan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Uneventful ethnography is an attempt to enable fieldworkers to capture social and…
The negotiation of feedback: Reporting back to teachers during fieldwork?
The negotiation of feedback: Reporting back to teachers during fieldwork? Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study examines how an ethnographer of education and biology teachers negotiate roles during collaborative fieldwork…
Methodological considerations for the study of uncomfortable otherness: Challenges and strategies
Methodological considerations for the study of uncomfortable otherness: Challenges and strategies Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper reflects on the methodological challenges of studying uncomfortable otherness – otherness that is…
Fieldwork encounters: Navigation of relationships and the conundrums of ethnographic knowledge production
Fieldwork encounters: Navigation of relationships and the conundrums of ethnographic knowledge production Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The paper examines the methodological challenges of conducting ethnographic research in complex research settings…
Kinning through the “House in Kirinosawa”: How migrants craft togetherness, relatedness, and belonging across time
Kinning through the “House in Kirinosawa”: How migrants craft togetherness, relatedness, and belonging across time Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Blending discussion with ethnographic writing, this article examines repeated visits to…
Care and world-making in times of despair
Care and world-making in times of despair Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Images of ecological collapse, starvation, and genocide spill into my phone screen, often causing despair. Yet amid a blanket…
From integration to reorientation: Processes of orientation after refugee resettlement in Denmark
From integration to reorientation: Processes of orientation after refugee resettlement in Denmark Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article builds on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2022-2024 with families from DR Congo,…
Maintaining balance in isolation: Work, values and moral debt in a French Antarctic expedition
Maintaining balance in isolation: Work, values and moral debt in a French Antarctic expedition Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines the social dynamics of Antarctic expeditions from the perspective…
Animating the past, enduring the present: Labour and heritage production at Waterloo, Belgium
Animating the past, enduring the present: Labour and heritage production at Waterloo, Belgium Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines how heritage is produced through labour at Waterloo Battlefield, Belgium.…
Cultural change and sociality among the Moré of the lower Guaporé River
Cultural change and sociality among the Moré of the lower Guaporé River Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article investigates cultural continuity and change among the Moré Indigenous people of the…
Livestreaming “being there”: A reflective study of remote ethnographic observation under campus lockdown
Livestreaming “being there”: A reflective study of remote ethnographic observation under campus lockdown Ethnography, Ahead of Print. When lockdowns or travel restrictions render in-person fieldwork impossible, how can ethnographers remain…
Camera and catharsis: Handling an open wound in emotionally contaminated research
Camera and catharsis: Handling an open wound in emotionally contaminated research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines how cancer shapes not only participants’ lives but also the researchers’ physical…
Field notes from the margins: Rethinking ethnographic presence through interpretive transcription and online interviewing
Field notes from the margins: Rethinking ethnographic presence through interpretive transcription and online interviewing Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article draws on a multi-sited study involving 307 interviews with labeled…