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)…
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent”
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent” Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Backed by 3 years of apprenticeship in a boxing gym of Chicago’s hyperghetto and in-depth…
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, we argue that two significant shifts, namely, the blurring of lives offline and…
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article examines, from a theoretical and empirical perspective, the types of diasporic leisure experienced by the Zimbabwean…
‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden
‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The aim of this article is to critically examine ideas about…
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The article investigates how young Muslims born and/or raised in Italy perform…
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article discusses the results of ethnographic research conducted in the municipality of…
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how structural violence is reflected in the daily…
From the street to the drug consumption room. Injected drug use across consumption environments
From the street to the drug consumption room. Injected drug use across consumption environments Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Previous studies have reported that injected drug use cannot be understood in…
#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…
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Liberal arts education is highly commodified, yet it also…
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…
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date: Memory, materiality, and agency
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date: Memory, materiality, and agency Go to Source
Scales of knowing
Scales of knowing Go to Source
Place, materiality, and gender in subaltern memories of long lives in a poor Beijing neighborhood
Place, materiality, and gender in subaltern memories of long lives in a poor Beijing neighborhood Go to Source
The illusions of “magical thinking”: Whose chimera, ours or theirs?
The illusions of “magical thinking”: Whose chimera, ours or theirs? Go to Source
“Where it was, I must come into being”
“Where it was, I must come into being” This article considers the problem of translation and radical interpretation from a post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspective, and challenges the notion of concept,…
Burning translations
Burning translations This essay radicalizes the call for foreignizing translation in anthropology by pushing translation beyond a reference to an anthropological self. What I recognize as “burning translations” responds to…