‘Troubled lads’. Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome
‘Troubled lads’. Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article analyses the conflicts that arise between students and educational institutions within the…
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the…
Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil
Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Developments in qualitative research have increasingly recognized the value of…
Putting our bodies on the line: Corporeal ethnography and metamorphosis
Putting our bodies on the line: Corporeal ethnography and metamorphosis Ethnography, Ahead of Print. With notable exceptions, ethnographers engaging in observant participation have not reflected on what it means tobecomethe…
Animals in anthropology: From objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects?
Animals in anthropology: From objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects? Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The paper addresses animals potential as ethnographic subjects. This issue challenges anthropology and its perimeter, by…
Drawing beyond silence: Exploring present realities and imagined futures of Karen encamped refugee youths
Drawing beyond silence: Exploring present realities and imagined futures of Karen encamped refugee youths Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Exploring the everyday lives of encamped refugees presents ethnographers with a delicate…
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The mainstream anti-trafficking movement asserts a sharp distinction between freedom and unfreedom—between “free” waged employment, on the…
Composite ethnography: Collective encounters with emergent objects in the anthropocene
Composite ethnography: Collective encounters with emergent objects in the anthropocene Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper introduces a methodological approach we call “composite ethnography,” a practice of lab-based qualitative research…
From stigma to inclusion: Ethnographic studies in social pedagogy
From stigma to inclusion: Ethnographic studies in social pedagogy Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study explores how everyday interactions in institutional care settings shape identity formation and social inclusion among…
BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration
BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Under the aegis of what we term “broad data ethnography”, we outline four principles for the…
The Māori precariat: Excerpts from urban ethnography on precarity in Auckland city
The Māori precariat: Excerpts from urban ethnography on precarity in Auckland city Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article focuses on the everyday struggles of the Māori precariat in Auckland City.…
Methodological issues in African youth languages research
Methodological issues in African youth languages research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Youth language research is an outgrowth of sociolinguistics and has contributed immensely to redefining and reconstructing youth-based identity, linguistic…
The “farmily” that changed me: An ethnography and autoethnography of small-scale farming and Agrarian worldviews in Australia
The “farmily” that changed me: An ethnography and autoethnography of small-scale farming and Agrarian worldviews in Australia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. To observe and experience how culture is embedded within…
“Why should we have to eat the chicken’s butt?” – Everyday consumption, deservingness and inclusion in rural Hungary
“Why should we have to eat the chicken’s butt?” - Everyday consumption, deservingness and inclusion in rural Hungary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article explores the links between consumption, deservingness…
From strangers to families?: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions
From strangers to families?: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions Ethnography, Ahead of Print. There has been a growing body of literature focusing on adoptees’ experiences of searching for their…
Echoes of liminality: Hidden transcripts and subtle resistance in Bhojpuri-speaking women’s Kajari folksongs
Echoes of liminality: Hidden transcripts and subtle resistance in Bhojpuri-speaking women’s Kajari folksongs Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In North India,Kajariis both a festival and a folksong, offering a starting point…
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Undertaking fieldwork within the educational spaces of neoliberal academia underscored how ethnography,…
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”: Unsettled feelings amongst former panel-block residents in Moscow and Berlin
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”: Unsettled feelings amongst former panel-block residents in Moscow and Berlin Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In 2017, Moscow launched an urban renewal campaign proposing…
Walking sensorially through the landscapes of a galaxy far, far away
Walking sensorially through the landscapes of a galaxy far, far away Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The Star Wars seriesAndor(2022 - 25) represented a return to the practical filmmaking approach and…
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I explore how older, jobless informal workers in urban Ghana’s…