Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The Fair Trade movement aims to provide producers and workers…
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,…
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on children’s reactions to military deployment from the perspective of their parents. Based on ethnographic…
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the literature on migration to the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),…
“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.…
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article discusses ethnographic fieldwork among nine- and ten-year-old children in…
“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…
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Scholarly engagement with ethics, epistemologies and positionalities dilemmas in conflict research is…
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…
Ethnography of the kitchen: The Women’s House, a space for feminist alliance and intercultural encounter
Ethnography of the kitchen: The Women’s House, a space for feminist alliance and intercultural encounter Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In this article, we delve into a debate about whether a…
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…
The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland
The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland Ethnography, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 14-37, March 2022. The article contains a cultural analysis…
Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology
Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article investigates a particular moment of political tension and intimidation of sub-Saharan migrants in Northern Morocco. Drawing…
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…
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Anthropologists increasingly turn to design research for inspiration. Yet work in design anthropology is frequently cut off…
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) (Centar za mirovne studije – CMS)…
“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 interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Following critiques of anthropologists’ involvement in colonialism and insufficient attention to power, friendship, solidarity, and closeness have become implicit…