Genealogies across the cold war divide: The case of the Pontic Greeks from the former Soviet Union and their ‘affinal repatriation’
Genealogies across the cold war divide: The case of the Pontic Greeks from the former Soviet Union and their ‘affinal repatriation’ Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper focuses on two…
To deport or to ‘adopt’? The Israeli dilemma in dealing with children of non-Jewish undocumented migrants
To deport or to ‘adopt’? The Israeli dilemma in dealing with children of non-Jewish undocumented migrants Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article analyses the unprecedented decision taken by the Israeli…
Imagining and living new worlds: The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration
Imagining and living new worlds: The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This essay considers kinship in the contexts of movement and migration.…
‘Lean on me’: Sifarish, mediation & the digitisation of state bureaucracies in India
‘Lean on me': Sifarish, mediation & the digitisation of state bureaucracies in India Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Through an ethnographic focus on Muslim neighbourhoods in a North Indian city, this…
“The African family is large, very large” mobility and the flexibility of kinship – examples from Cameroon
“The African family is large, very large” mobility and the flexibility of kinship – examples from Cameroon Ethnography, Ahead of Print. When I started fieldwork among the Maka in SE…
Migration, mobility and the dynamics of kinship: New barriers, new assemblages
Migration, mobility and the dynamics of kinship: New barriers, new assemblages Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Although kinship has long since been established as a topic in migration research, migration scholars…
Labour of love: Secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands
Labour of love: Secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper examines the productive role of secrecy in the nexus of transnational…
The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience
The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience Ethnography, Ahead of Print. ‘Mentally vulnerable’ young people are a strong focal point in public debate and policy in…
Navigating the ‘field’: Reflexivity, uncertainties, and negotiation along the border of Bangladesh and India
Navigating the ‘field’: Reflexivity, uncertainties, and negotiation along the border of Bangladesh and India Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Drawing on a fourteen-month ethnographic fieldwork experience along the border of Bangladesh…
“You’ve got to have core muscles”: Cultivating hardworking bodies among white-collar women in urban China
“You’ve got to have core muscles”: Cultivating hardworking bodies among white-collar women in urban China Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on young white-collar women training bodies after…
Features and form: Appropriating digital storytelling for public ethnography
Features and form: Appropriating digital storytelling for public ethnography Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnography may have a unique capacity to capture the attention of non-academic publics, but if it remains…
The construction of gender identity in Alevi organisations: Discourses, practices, and gaps
The construction of gender identity in Alevi organisations: Discourses, practices, and gaps Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The academic and lay interest towards Turkey’s Alevi community has so far treated the…
Governing beyond the closet: Remaking stigma, identity, and sexual behavior in a post-disciplinary rehab
Governing beyond the closet: Remaking stigma, identity, and sexual behavior in a post-disciplinary rehab Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Combining historical and ethnographic research, this article analyzes changing logics of control…
Rumor has it: Strategies for ethnographic analysis in authoritarian regimes
Rumor has it: Strategies for ethnographic analysis in authoritarian regimes Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Accurate information can be difficult to access in authoritarian regimes. As more and more countries fall…
Between narrative and practice: Storytelling as a way of knowing how to be in nature
Between narrative and practice: Storytelling as a way of knowing how to be in nature Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines the storytelling practices of adventurers as a means…
Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings
Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Taking as its point of departure extant concerns about the Eurocentric nature of sociological knowledge…
From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire
From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire Ethnography, Ahead of Print. For marginalised people living in Cape Town, South Africa, rapper Tupac Shakur…
Getting respect: How minority boxers build a hybrid masculinity in a French Banlieue
Getting respect: How minority boxers build a hybrid masculinity in a French Banlieue Ethnography, Ahead of Print. AbstractBased on an ethnographic study using participant observations and interviews in a Thai…
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores what it means to be…
Temporalities at sea: Fast time and slow time onboard ocean-going merchant vessels
Temporalities at sea: Fast time and slow time onboard ocean-going merchant vessels Ethnography, Ahead of Print. There have been claims about how social acceleration affects us in different ways. However,…