‘People don’t fall for it any longer’: Reflections on ‘the system’, entrepreneurialism, and autonomy among young adults in Amsterdam’s Southeast district
‘People don’t fall for it any longer’: Reflections on ‘the system’, entrepreneurialism, and autonomy among young adults in Amsterdam’s Southeast district Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores how young…
The birth of Baokuan: Human-machine “gambling games” between villages and algorithms
The birth of Baokuan: Human-machine “gambling games” between villages and algorithms Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Since 2009, rural China has gradually developed a new livelihood model in which families produce…
Changing bodily practices in interspecies communities with dairy cows and white lions: Methodological challenges in co-constructing meaning
Changing bodily practices in interspecies communities with dairy cows and white lions: Methodological challenges in co-constructing meaning Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Research with cows, white lions, and other forms of…
Ethnography, 2025: The housekeeping year
Ethnography, 2025: The housekeeping year Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Ritualization and emotional resilience in times of crisis: Insights from a diary study of Romanian Orthodox Easter during the first COVID-19 lockdown
Ritualization and emotional resilience in times of crisis: Insights from a diary study of Romanian Orthodox Easter during the first COVID-19 lockdown Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper explores the…
Walking the streets: Embodied experiences of place making in Old Bhopal, India
Walking the streets: Embodied experiences of place making in Old Bhopal, India Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Most Indian cities are rarely conducive to walking, given their congested nature and dearth…
The religious experience of homeless people who use drugs in the city of Porto – Portugal
The religious experience of homeless people who use drugs in the city of Porto – Portugal Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on data generated from an ethnographic exploration conducted in…
Who moved my challah? Evolving practices and innovations in traditional Jewish bread
Who moved my challah? Evolving practices and innovations in traditional Jewish bread Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Challah bread represents one of the most prominent symbols in Jewish tradition, through its…
“Don’t take too many pictures”: Discomfort as urban ethnographic method in Rajarhat
“Don’t take too many pictures”: Discomfort as urban ethnographic method in Rajarhat Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article draws on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajarhat, a planned…
Tales from the field: Giving voice to my digital self
Tales from the field: Giving voice to my digital self Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This tale from the field began as a commission for a menswear magazine. Unpublished due to…
Im/mobility and privilege during COVID-19: Reprography of commercial surrogacy in India
Im/mobility and privilege during COVID-19: Reprography of commercial surrogacy in India Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this paper I recount my relationship with the ex-surrogate Swapna during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Crime as culture revisited: Being young, poor and delinquent in Lisbon, Portugal
Crime as culture revisited: Being young, poor and delinquent in Lisbon, Portugal Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In Portugal, a large number of young residents living on the urban periphery have…
White privilege: grey zones. Portuguese migrants in Angola
White privilege: grey zones. Portuguese migrants in Angola Ethnography, Ahead of Print. It is often assumed that South-North migrations are fundamentally different from North-South ones. That White privilege is unequivocal,…
Dimensions of time and comparative analysis in surrogacy research
Dimensions of time and comparative analysis in surrogacy research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article argues that long-term ethnographic immersion, combined with ongoing comparative discussions between the authors shed light…
“It almost seems as if, in the forest, the city has disappeared”: Walking ethnography in an urban wilderness
“It almost seems as if, in the forest, the city has disappeared”: Walking ethnography in an urban wilderness Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article discusses the findings of a walking…
Changing the world in three minutes? A duoethnographic provocation of 3MT in neoliberal Australian universities
Changing the world in three minutes? A duoethnographic provocation of 3MT in neoliberal Australian universities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Neoliberal discourses have shaped Australian universities into business organisations instead of…
How time is experienced and conceptualised when conducting ethnography mapping NEET interventions in education settings
How time is experienced and conceptualised when conducting ethnography mapping NEET interventions in education settings Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The importance of ‘time’ is well-established within ethnography, yet how time…
White people’s colorblind racial identity work in music-related contexts
White people’s colorblind racial identity work in music-related contexts Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article outlines a generic process in the reproduction of inequality we name colorblind racial identity work.…
Gore kinship: The cultural economies of killing in an ethnography of invasive pufferfish in Crete
Gore kinship: The cultural economies of killing in an ethnography of invasive pufferfish in Crete Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article introducesgore kinship, a mode of multispecies relation requiring the…
Rapping our reality: Young people approaching the Haitian future in the subjunctive
Rapping our reality: Young people approaching the Haitian future in the subjunctive Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Through multimodal, collaborative methods with young people from Delmas, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, I show our…