Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Through an historical ethnographic analysis of Sri Lanka’s oldest charity, the…
Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy
Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Trade brought the Parsis to Hong Kong and a small group remained and settled after the British…
Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China
Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper presents empirical data on how religious giving structures African Muslims’ transnational lives…
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This ethnographic study of environmental learning in a South African township school unravels…
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood Ethnography, Ahead of Print. One of the most influential nonprofit organizations in Japan’s contemporary parenting…
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article draws from fieldwork with Iranian-American Muslim women in…
Jala Role: Normative Practice of Collaborative Ethnography in a Hostile Research Frontier, South Omo, Ethiopia
Jala Role: Normative Practice of Collaborative Ethnography in a Hostile Research Frontier, South Omo, Ethiopia Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article outlines the significance of a normative social and cultural…
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In Brazil, a growing number of young citizens from the socioeconomic periphery embark on a career…
Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers
Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I draw upon 20 months of participant observation to compare the…
‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown
‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In many countries the lockdown measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic…
Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland
Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland Ethnography, Ahead of Print. For a long time, researchers have explored practices of kinship, but while focusing…
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Asking how being ‘international’ relates to privilege, I analyse a role-play game, the Students’ League…
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article, based on fieldwork conducted in 2016 at the French national Court…
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang Ethnography, Ahead of Print. As concepts of place, locality, and localism have been abundantly discussed…
Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions
Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions Ethnography, Ahead of Print. With the tremendous advancements in Internet, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence,…
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Analysing emotions such as love can enable new ways of understanding human relationships and deepen reflexive ethnographic practice.…
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit Ethnography, Ahead of Print. While a large body of auto-ethnographic literature focuses on the bias associated with…
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent”
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent” Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Backed by 3 years of apprenticeship in a boxing gym of Chicago’s hyperghetto and in-depth…
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, we argue that two significant shifts, namely, the blurring of lives offline and…
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines, from a theoretical and empirical perspective, the types of diasporic leisure experienced by the Zimbabwean…