Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This autoethnography explores my experiences as a hospital…
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Framing “immobility” as already containing mobility, this research asks why people…
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Freedom of speech has long been considered an essential value in democracies. However,…
An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors
An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. While much has been written…
Memory Politics on a Neighborhood Scale: Uses of the Past in the Historic Center and the Periphery of Valencia (Spain)
Memory Politics on a Neighborhood Scale: Uses of the Past in the Historic Center and the Periphery of Valencia (Spain) Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article analyzes…
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This study…
Interaction Rituals at Content Trade Fairs: A Microfoundation of Cultural Markets
Interaction Rituals at Content Trade Fairs: A Microfoundation of Cultural Markets Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, we show how ritualized periodic encounters of business partners…
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS)…
#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…