Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist
Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Erving Goffman has a reputation as an…
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper…
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article focuses on ageism during COVID-19 lockdowns. It is…
Constructing Selves in (Im)mobility: Greek Women’s Narratives Concerning the COVID-19 Lockdowns in Athens, Greece
Constructing Selves in (Im)mobility: Greek Women’s Narratives Concerning the COVID-19 Lockdowns in Athens, Greece Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The present article examines women’s narratives concerning the COVID-19…
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper offers a glimpse into the affective work inherent in the practices, objects,…
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Since the ‘performative turn’ in social sciences, ethnographers have extensively studied…
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, I explore the reflexive tensions of a Muslim…
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Trad nationalist a/effects
Trad nationalist a/effects Go to Source
The perils of national narratives
The perils of national narratives Go to Source
Subversive comparisons
Subversive comparisons Go to Source
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism Go to Source
Comparisons and contradictions: The tactics of subversive archaism in anthropology and the nation-state
Comparisons and contradictions: The tactics of subversive archaism in anthropology and the nation-state Go to Source
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves: Repatriation, affective relations, and social values of archaeological human remains
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves: Repatriation, affective relations, and social values of archaeological human remains The mummy of the Altaian Princess is one of the…
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points: Methodological reflections on brownness in the field and intersectional reflexivity
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points: Methodological reflections on brownness in the field and intersectional reflexivity Using theoretical debates about how to deploy reflexivity in ethnographic research to…
Unable to see the diagnosis: Harmed bodies and oil extraction in Peruvian Amazonia
Unable to see the diagnosis: Harmed bodies and oil extraction in Peruvian Amazonia This article discusses two distinct notions of harm, wakllichishka and oil harm, and two distinct ways of…
Scales of subversion
Scales of subversion Go to Source
Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism
Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism Go to Source
Migration, village sociality, and mistrust: An exploration
Migration, village sociality, and mistrust: An exploration This article examines the phenomenon of migration in India’s villages. Drawing on research in Jharkhand and Maharashtra and selected village ethnographies it illustrates…
Uncanny ethics: Locating the coordinates of the ethical in the COVID-19 pandemic
Uncanny ethics: Locating the coordinates of the ethical in the COVID-19 pandemic The recent anthropological focus on “ordinary ethics” emerges out of a concern to attend to the ethical aspect…