Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers) Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Feminist methodological interventions have advanced our understanding of reflexivities, leading us to…
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment Ethnography, Ahead of Print. During the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), Beirut’s built environment was taken over by militias 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…
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…
Bolognina gym
Bolognina gym Ethnography, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 295-310, September 2021. AbstractThis article describes the social organization of the ‘Tranvieri’ boxing gym in Bolognina, a working class Bologna neighbourhood that…
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Team ethnography is becoming more popular in research. However, there is…
Introduction: ‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’
Introduction: ‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’ Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This special issue on hand-to-hand sports aims to analyse how collective identities and forms of group and community…
Gendered encounters in mobility: Women researching migrant construction workers
Gendered encounters in mobility: Women researching migrant construction workers Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Writing about sexism and sexual harassment in the field is still generally discouraged outside gender ethnography, despite…
The sensing eye: Intimate vision in couple dancing
The sensing eye: Intimate vision in couple dancing Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Vision tends to be associated with the mind and theorized as the least bodily sense. Notably, the eye…
‘A Punch Has No Paternity!’: techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam
‘A Punch Has No Paternity!’: techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article combines ethnographic and netnographic data to explore the relationships between body techniques…
The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare
The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Palestre popolari (‘people’s gyms’) are flourishing in contemporary Italy. These gyms are run by leftist grassroots organizations…
“La racaille,” a performed figure in French contemporary youth
“La racaille,” a performed figure in French contemporary youth Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In France, la racaille is a stereotyped figure of a young (usually identified as Arab or Black)…
“We take responsibility!”: Governing the neighborhood—governing the self
“We take responsibility!”: Governing the neighborhood—governing the self Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This ethnographic study of a neighborhood association focuses on the process of organizing residents to collective action. Situated…
Yokozuna Hakuhō—Japanese Mongolian hero
Yokozuna Hakuhō—Japanese Mongolian hero Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Yokozuna Hakuhō, a prominent Sumo wrestler, is a Mongolian-born Japanese national hero. However, he, as other Mongolian wrestlers, presents Sumo with tensions…
Reflexive collaboration: Building pluri-ethnographic partnerships in an Ecuadorian bank
Reflexive collaboration: Building pluri-ethnographic partnerships in an Ecuadorian bank Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article illustrates the value of reflexive dialogue regarding foundational assumptions about ontologies of culture and cultural…
‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’
‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’ Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This special issue on hand-to-hand sports aims to analyse how collective identities and forms of group and community belonging…
“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling
“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling Ethnography, Ahead of Print. More than merely a combat sport, Senegalese wrestling combines professional athleticism with cultural traditions, political relations, and religious…
The belts are set out: The batizado as a symbolic welcome to capoeira culture
The belts are set out: The batizado as a symbolic welcome to capoeira culture Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In contemporary capoeira groups, newcomers are symbolically ‘baptised’ into the community at…
The (un)celebrated asylum centre: How Danish media hijacked an ethnographic fieldwork and altered local realities
The (un)celebrated asylum centre: How Danish media hijacked an ethnographic fieldwork and altered local realities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Denmark’s oldest asylum centre has been in operation in the small…