This article offers a critical and reflective examination of the impact of the enforced 2020/21 COVID-19 lockdown on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with UK-based young environmental activists. A matrix of researcher and activist challenges and opportunities has been co-created with young environmental activists using an emergent research design, incorporating a phased and intensive iterative process using online ethnography and online qualitative interviews. The article focuses on reflections emerging from the process of co-designing and then use of this matrix in practice. It offers an evidence base which others researching hard-to-reach youth populations may themselves deploy when negotiating face-to-face fieldwork approval at their own academic institutions. The pandemic and its associated control regimes, such as lockdown and social distancing measures, will have lasting effects for both activism and researchers. The methodological reflections we offer in this article have the potential to contribute to the learning of social science researchers with respect to how best to respond when carrying out online fieldwork in such contexts—particularly, but not only, with young activists.

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COVID 化的民族志：青年环境活动家和研究人员的挑战和机遇

本文对 2020/21 年 COVID-19 强制封锁对与英国年轻环保活动家进行的人种学实地考察的影响进行了批判性和反思性研究。研究人员和激进主义者的挑战和机遇矩阵已使用新兴研究设计与年轻的环保活动家共同创建，结合使用在线民族志和在线定性访谈的分阶段和密集迭代过程。本文重点介绍协同设计过程中出现的思考，然后在实践中使用该矩阵。它提供了一个证据基础，其他研究难以接触的青年群体的人在他们自己的学术机构就面对面的实地考察批准进行谈判时可能会自己部署这些证据基础。大流行及其相关控制制度，例如封锁和社会疏远措施，将对激进主义和研究人员产生持久影响。我们在本文中提供的方法论反思有可能有助于社会科学研究人员学习在这种情况下进行在线实地调查时如何最好地回应——特别是但不仅限于年轻的活动家。