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…
How to do things with worlds: A reply to responses
How to do things with worlds: A reply to responses Go to Source
The death of urban China: Reflections on Harriet Evans’s Beijing from below
The death of urban China: Reflections on Harriet Evans’s Beijing from below Go to Source
Life in old Beijing
Life in old Beijing Go to Source
All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research
All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article addresses the challenges inherent to conducting ethnography in all-encompassing institutions and presents strategies for equity-oriented…
Comparative urbanism and collective methodologies: Restoration projects in West Bengal and South East London
Comparative urbanism and collective methodologies: Restoration projects in West Bengal and South East London Asking who gets to compare, this paper advocates inclusive research methodologies through a discussion of comparison…
The psychedelic ritual as a technique of the self: Identity reconfiguration and narrative reframing in the therapeutic efficacy of ayahuasca
The psychedelic ritual as a technique of the self: Identity reconfiguration and narrative reframing in the therapeutic efficacy of ayahuasca Although so-called “psychedelic” substances have recently experienced a revival of…