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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This ethnographic paper explores modest fashion (MF) among Muslim and Jewish women in Israel…
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…
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…
“Listening to the South Gate”: Placemaking, Mediascape, and Tourism Diplomacy Seen Through a Band Performance in Xi’an
“Listening to the South Gate”: Placemaking, Mediascape, and Tourism Diplomacy Seen Through a Band Performance in Xi’an Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper is an ethnography of…
The Digitalization of Ethnography: A Scoping Review of Methods in Netnography
The Digitalization of Ethnography: A Scoping Review of Methods in Netnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article focuses on the digital transposition of ethnography (, digital ethnography…
“Sticky, Yet Precarious”—An Ethnographic Insight of F&B Workers in Singapore
“Sticky, Yet Precarious”—An Ethnographic Insight of F&B Workers in Singapore Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines the paradoxical nature of food and beverage (F&B) service work…
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Instagram is a social media platform where users upload digital images for…
Trust Development in Street-Based Outreach: Building Engagement with Vulnerable Populations in Helsinki
Trust Development in Street-Based Outreach: Building Engagement with Vulnerable Populations in Helsinki Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article describes the everyday operating practices of a team of…
Navigating Thailand’s Extortion Regime: On the Ambiguities of Relational Autonomy in the Contested Management of Migrant Deportability
Navigating Thailand’s Extortion Regime: On the Ambiguities of Relational Autonomy in the Contested Management of Migrant Deportability Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. That deportability renders migrant labor hyper-exploitable…
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. While it is well established that bureaucratic organizations channel status competitions into formal…
One Step Ahead of the Canadian Immigration System: Bureaucratic Chaos and the Development of Migrant Experts Online
One Step Ahead of the Canadian Immigration System: Bureaucratic Chaos and the Development of Migrant Experts Online Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Getting access to the right information…
Because the World Did Not End When I Was Seventeen: From Death Anxiety to Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Self-Transcendence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Because the World Did Not End When I Was Seventeen: From Death Anxiety to Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Self-Transcendence During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The…
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The architectural and technological modernity of contemporary ships belies the prevalence of…
Performing Conservative Politics
Performing Conservative Politics Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Research on political performance has typically addressed macro-level performances, such as highly visible protests and demonstrations from progressive organizations. Using…
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines a relatively unexplored set of urban scenarios…