Stage Courts and Street Sovereignty: Accident Blame, Debt Discipline, and Platform Friction in Uganda’s Boda Boda Economy
Stage Courts and Street Sovereignty: Accident Blame, Debt Discipline, and Platform Friction in Uganda’s Boda Boda Economy Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Boda boda stages in Uganda are…
Antagonistic Collaboration: Legal Advocates and Immigration Officers in the Dutch Asylum Procedure
Antagonistic Collaboration: Legal Advocates and Immigration Officers in the Dutch Asylum Procedure Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Scholarship on asylum procedures often examines officers of the Immigration and…
“Let’s Roll the Streets of Mzansi”: A Collaborative Ethnography of Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa
“Let’s Roll the Streets of Mzansi”: A Collaborative Ethnography of Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores the rise of Operation Dudula,…
Writing from the Wound: Racial Melancholia and the Entangled Affects of Feminist Ethnography
Writing from the Wound: Racial Melancholia and the Entangled Affects of Feminist Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is about the necessity of working with and…
Decline and transformation of cooperation in two rural communities in Poland in the context of deagrarianisation
Decline and transformation of cooperation in two rural communities in Poland in the context of deagrarianisation Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The aim of this article is to…
Sonic Signatures: On the Potentialities of Listening Well By Listening Differently
Sonic Signatures: On the Potentialities of Listening Well By Listening Differently Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article argues that sound-based aspects of fieldwork hold the potential to…
Unpacking the Ordinary in the Extraordinary: What Ethnography Can Teach Us About the Everyday Life of Social Movements
Unpacking the Ordinary in the Extraordinary: What Ethnography Can Teach Us About the Everyday Life of Social Movements Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Social movements are contentious, action-packed,…
Care at a Distance: Social Solitude, Emotional Capitalism, and Homeless Citizenship in Neoliberal Australia
Care at a Distance: Social Solitude, Emotional Capitalism, and Homeless Citizenship in Neoliberal Australia Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study examines how civic communities form and operate…
Accounting for Socialization: Quantitative Priming, Language, and Tools in a Masters of Public Affairs Program
Accounting for Socialization: Quantitative Priming, Language, and Tools in a Masters of Public Affairs Program Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Quantitative accountability has become a widespread rationale for…
Livelihoods, Social Protectionism, and Thailand’s Precarious Labor Markets
Livelihoods, Social Protectionism, and Thailand’s Precarious Labor Markets Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Despite assurances by the Thai government that it has prioritized extensive economic improvements that will…
Forge and Flex: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Resilience Among Indonesian PhD Mama Scholars
Forge and Flex: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Resilience Among Indonesian PhD Mama Scholars Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. As four Indonesian PhD mama scholars in the United States,…
Ethnographic Strategies: Reflexivity in Theorizing About Class and Precarity
Ethnographic Strategies: Reflexivity in Theorizing About Class and Precarity Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article explores how reflexive ethnographic practice can generate deeper insights into class, precarity,…
Workarounds to Mandated Data Practices: Rethinking Digital Infrastructure in Child Welfare and Homeless-Serving Organizations
Workarounds to Mandated Data Practices: Rethinking Digital Infrastructure in Child Welfare and Homeless-Serving Organizations Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Over the past decade, much of the infrastructure used…
The Trans Theory Case for Translation: Language, Gender, and Distributed Knowledge
The Trans Theory Case for Translation: Language, Gender, and Distributed Knowledge Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The study of communication and gender variance across cultures can be enhanced…
The Gaze and the Gesture: Hypervisible Insiderness and the Politics of Recognition in Somali Ethnography
The Gaze and the Gesture: Hypervisible Insiderness and the Politics of Recognition in Somali Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Ethnographic scholarship increasingly recognizes the complexity of researcher…
Beyond the Algorithm: Riders as Geographical Actors in the City
Beyond the Algorithm: Riders as Geographical Actors in the City Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper explores the spatial configuration patterns of riders or delivery drivers in…
Ethical and Epistemological Issues in Intimate Insider Ethnographic Research on Crime and Deviance
Ethical and Epistemological Issues in Intimate Insider Ethnographic Research on Crime and Deviance Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. There is considerable literature on intimacy, and friendships developed in…
Domicide and Homemaking in Times of War: Ukrainian Female Labor Migrants in Israel
Domicide and Homemaking in Times of War: Ukrainian Female Labor Migrants in Israel Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines domicide and homemaking among Ukrainian temporary labor…
Lifelines and Gateways: The Relational Affordances of Arctic Airports
Lifelines and Gateways: The Relational Affordances of Arctic Airports Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Airports are indispensable to life in the Arctic. Often shaped by geopolitical agendas and…
Scenarios and Ethnography: Infrastructural Futures as Windows into the Present
Scenarios and Ethnography: Infrastructural Futures as Windows into the Present Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Large-scale infrastructures are typically part of development projects that are global in ambition…