Environment-as-Infrastructure? Emerging Conflicts Over Roads and Environmental Conservation in the Chilean North Patagonian Frontier

Environment-as-Infrastructure? Emerging Conflicts Over Roads and Environmental Conservation in the Chilean North Patagonian Frontier Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The transportation infrastructure that connects Cochamó, a rural community…
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Amazon in the Arctic: E-Commerce, Infrastructure, and Alimentary Assemblages in Nunavut, Canada

Amazon in the Arctic: E-Commerce, Infrastructure, and Alimentary Assemblages in Nunavut, Canada Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Since establishing a delivery hub in Iqaluit, Nunavut in 2020, ,…
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Toward a Comparative Ethnography of Arctic Seaports Projects: Local Impacts of Expanding Maritime Infrastructure in Alaska, Norway, and Russia

Toward a Comparative Ethnography of Arctic Seaports Projects: Local Impacts of Expanding Maritime Infrastructure in Alaska, Norway, and Russia Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. My comparative ethnography focuses…
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Quelling Emotion: Emotion Work to Resist the Anti-TQLGB+ Emotion Culture of Fear in Florida

Quelling Emotion: Emotion Work to Resist the Anti-TQLGB+ Emotion Culture of Fear in Florida Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article presents ethnographic research about resistance to the…
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Intersecting Journeys: A Duoethnography Of Imposter Phenomenon Among Women In Higher Education And The Workplace

Intersecting Journeys: A Duoethnography Of Imposter Phenomenon Among Women In Higher Education And The Workplace Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This duoethnographic study explores how the impostor phenomenon…
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What is Scholar-Baiting? When the Watcher is Watched, and the Social Engineering Attacks on Scholars

What is Scholar-Baiting? When the Watcher is Watched, and the Social Engineering Attacks on Scholars Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. I write from the dual position of witness…
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Cineforum as a Participatory Field Device: Film-Viewing for Sensitive Knowledge in Ethnography

Cineforum as a Participatory Field Device: Film-Viewing for Sensitive Knowledge in Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores the cineforum, an activity where participants collectively decide…
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“More Money, More Problems”: Poverty, Recognition, and the Reframing of Success in Iran

“More Money, More Problems”: Poverty, Recognition, and the Reframing of Success in Iran Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines how stigmatized service workers in Iran make…
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Caught in Construction: Why Dutch Sovereign Citizens Challenge the Bureaucratic State

Caught in Construction: Why Dutch Sovereign Citizens Challenge the Bureaucratic State Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Governments and scholars worldwide have raised alarm about the increasing popularity of…
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Global Religious Projects with Local Reach: Glocal kavadi and Hinduism in La Réunion

Global Religious Projects with Local Reach: Glocal kavadi and Hinduism in La Réunion Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Global Hinduism involves a multi-faceted relation between religion and globalization.…
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Interviewing Salafis in Tunisia: Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Fieldwork with Oppositional Communities

Interviewing Salafis in Tunisia: Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Fieldwork with Oppositional Communities Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article critically reflects on the methodological and ethical challenges…
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An Autoethnography beyond Academia: The Embodiment of Motorcycle Maintenance

An Autoethnography beyond Academia: The Embodiment of Motorcycle Maintenance Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This autoethnographic account explores the challenges and revelations of cultivating a life outside academia.…
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Practical Lessons for Conducting International Qualitative Fieldwork as a Graduate Student

Practical Lessons for Conducting International Qualitative Fieldwork as a Graduate Student Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Qualitative field research can be profoundly rewarding, but it is also a…
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Fruitful Unpredictabilities of the Field: Procedural Serendipity in a Multi-Sited Ethnography

Fruitful Unpredictabilities of the Field: Procedural Serendipity in a Multi-Sited Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Doing ethnographic fieldwork is, inevitably, an experience full of contingencies. Many of…
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Balancing Acts and Ways of Knowing: Environmental Anthropology as a Collaborative Companion in the Anthropocene

Balancing Acts and Ways of Knowing: Environmental Anthropology as a Collaborative Companion in the Anthropocene Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The Anthropocene calls for collaboration between heterogeneous actors…
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