#LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends
#LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This ethnographic study follows a group…
Terminating a Wanted Pregnancy: A Feminist, Analytic Autoethnographic Account
Terminating a Wanted Pregnancy: A Feminist, Analytic Autoethnographic Account Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. With screening for fetal anomaly becoming more common, more families are faced with making…
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on the processes and practices…
Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Welfare-Providers to Seafarers and the Symbolic Construction of Community
Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Welfare-Providers to Seafarers and the Symbolic Construction of Community Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Seafarers who call into ports usually hope for,…
“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology
“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 347-375, June 2022.…
“Mimicked Winks”: Criminalized Conduct and the Ethics of Thick Description
“Mimicked Winks”: Criminalized Conduct and the Ethics of Thick Description Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Thick description has long been the standard for both credibility and quality in…
Street Art Commodification and (An)aesthetic Policies on the Outskirts of Lisbon
Street Art Commodification and (An)aesthetic Policies on the Outskirts of Lisbon Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I discuss how street art has become an ally…
Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines
Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Streets are public spaces where people pass through…
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article uses ethnographic social…
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Prison visitation transportation services perform an important yet…
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Findings discussed in this article addressed a gap in the literature on cannabis…
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this study, I…
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Sociologists have long known that wages are not all that attract highly skilled…
Researching While Trans: Being Clocked and Cooling Cistress
Researching While Trans: Being Clocked and Cooling Cistress Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I investigate how predominantly cisgender and straight participants of a university LGBT…
From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness
From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article offers a reflection on a certain variant of…
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The aim…
On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry
On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Designed based on careful specifications and regulations, commercial refrigerators can be…
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the intricate relationships between three…
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article is an autoethnographic account written by three Italian…
Autoethnography of Holy Death: Belief, Dividuality, and Family in the Study of Santa Muerte
Autoethnography of Holy Death: Belief, Dividuality, and Family in the Study of Santa Muerte Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Through an autoethnographic account that interweaves academic observations, my…