This year began with our gratitude and our goodbyes to Paul Willis and Peter Geschiere, colloquially known as Peter and Paul, as editors of this journal. And it continues with a final essay by Paul Willis and Mats Trondman, the founders of Ethnography. Their collaboration didn’t start with the first issue of the first volume of Ethnography in 2000, but rather 25 years ago, when they began exploring the possibilities of a journal that would center “lived experience” as the starting point for the ethnographic task, and as the necessary ground for the theorization that is part of this task. Their efforts were part of the “turn to lived experience”, which has been tangible in the past decades in different ways – Ethnography played its part in this turn. Twenty-five years later, Paul and Mats look back at this affirmation of lived experience and the traction it gained, within and beyond the social sciences. They also point to possible hazards, when lived experiences are fixed in essentialized identity categories and when such a fixating move translates into a loss of common ground. And they argue for a return to the commons, and notably for a deeper understanding and sharing of processes of meaning-making and cultural production with all the power dynamics that are integral to these.

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今年始于我们对Paul Willis和Peter Geschiere的感谢和告别，俗称彼得和保罗，他是该期刊的编辑。接下来是民族志学创始人保罗·威利斯（Paul Willis）和Mats Trondman的最后一篇论文。他们的合作并非始于2000年《民族志》第一卷的第一期，而是25年前，当他们开始探索以“鲜活的经验”为民族志任务起点的期刊的可能性时，并作为该任务一部分进行理论化的必要依据。他们的努力是“转变为生活经验”的一部分，在过去的几十年中，这已经以不同的方式得到了切实的体现–民族志在这一回合中发挥了自己的作用。25年后，保罗和马特斯（Paul and Mats）回顾了这种对生活经验的肯定以及它在社会科学内外所获得的吸引力。他们还指出了可能的危险，将生活经历固定在本质上的身份类别中，以及这种固定的举动转化为失去共同点的时候。他们主张回归公地，尤其是要对意义创造和文化生产的过程进行更深入的了解和共享，并利用这些力量所不可或缺的所有动力。