Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”
Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking” Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article deploys Bourdieu’s conceptualization of habitus to examine how fighters at a Muay Thai/Kickboxing…
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-19
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-19 Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Each year the United States government detains and deports hundreds of thousands…
The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling
The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Sociological writings on panhandling have depicted protracted donor relationships as one of panhandlers’ surest paths to…
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines how race, gender, and generation influence ethnographers’ ethical decision-making in the field. We…
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the current article, I reflect on data…
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…