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…
Intergenerational Perspectives From Elite Female Athletes’ Experiences With the Menstrual Cycle: Weaving in Confessional Insights From a Male Researcher With Emerging Co-Researchers
Intergenerational Perspectives From Elite Female Athletes’ Experiences With the Menstrual Cycle: Weaving in Confessional Insights From a Male Researcher With Emerging Co-Researchers Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This…
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on the concept of “peripheral” positionality based on…
Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education
Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Nursing education plays a pivotal role in…
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In multilingual societies, it is common for the individual languages used…
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Knowledge systems are embedded in sets of values, worldviews, and cosmologies…
“Why Won’t You Let Me Hit On You?”: Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork as Data
“Why Won’t You Let Me Hit On You?”: Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork as Data Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The aim of the article is to introduce and…