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Contested knowledges: Negotiating the epistemic politics of engaged activist ethnography Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Antje Scharenberg
This article offers a methodological reflection on what it means to practise politically engaged ethnography with contemporary alter-European activists. While politically engaged research has a lon...
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‘Military timescapes’: The corporeal experience of time in an Israel defense forces reserve combat unit Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Nehemia Stern
This article explores the concept of time among combat reservists in the Israel Defense Forces. Most ethnographic studies of temporality tend to focus on how time’s passage is measured or ‘reckoned...
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Construction of normality in the gecekondu settlement: Experience of place, social pressure, and tactics Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Leyla Bektaş Ata
This article aims to interrogate the construction of normality with a view to a squatter metropolitan setting in İzmir, Turkey. In doing so, I focus on the everyday experiences of the inhabitants i...
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A culturally sensitive educational intervention to improve the acceptance and sustained use of safer cooking stoves in the Guatemalan highlands Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Nancy Nagib, Ruisu Chen, Juan Pablo Noriega, Randell Turner, Rahul Kashyap
This study introduces a culturally sensitive educational intervention to households that use open-fire cooking methods in order to improve the acceptance and sustained use of a safer cooking stove....
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Infertility Among Counselor Education and Supervision Doctoral Students: Expectations, Experiences, and Knowledge Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Andrew Ansell, Eman Tadros
Females are disproportionately affected by infertility, and Counselor Education and Supervision (CES) doctoral students are predominantly female. Using phenomenological approach female CES doctoral...
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The Value of Circulating Tumor Cells and Tumor Markers Detection in Lung Cancer Diagnosis Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Sumin Guo, Jingyu Chen, Po Hu, Chen Li, Xiang Wang, Ning Chen, Jiale Sun, Yongfeng Wang, Jianling Wang, Weikuan Gu, Shucai Wu
ObjectiveCirculating tumor cells are complete tumor cells with multi-scale analysis values that present a high potential for lung cancer diagnosis. To enhance the accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis,...
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Effect of Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program on Self-Efficacy of Patients With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Mohammad Heidari, Parviz Nadimi Harandi, Jaefar Moghaddasi, Soleiman Kheiri, Amirhossein Azhari
IntroductionFor more effective control and treatment of cardiac dysrhythmias caused by diseases, ischemia, or other causes, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is used. One of the effec...
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Resilience correlates with patient-reported outcome measures at a minimum of 2 years after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Charlie D Wilson, Luke J Villamaria, Benjamin D Welling, Kendall AP Hammonds, Brett N Robin
AimsWe aimed to evaluate the correlation between preoperative and postoperative resilience scores and postoperative outcomes at minimum 2-year follow-up after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.Metho...
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Microstructural and interface properties of aluminium alloy coatings on alumina applied by friction surfacing Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Hasan B Atil, Matthias Leonhardt, Richard J Grant, Simon M Barrans
Two large groups of materials, namely metals and ceramics, are used in mass quantities in today’s industry because of their outstanding properties. To achieve higher product performance dissimilar ...
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Places of belonging: Rethinking coexistence from oriental barbershops in a Finnish city Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Bruno Lefort
This article discusses how migrant businesses actively contribute to the negotiation of everyday coexistence in a Finnish provincial city. It focuses on oriental barbershops to unpack the interplay...
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Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Paul Mutsaers, Maikel Meijeren
In a special issue in Ethnography, the question was raised how to study violence ethnographically in Latin America and the Caribbean. The present article seeks to extend this special issue with ref...
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Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Joshua M Bluteau
This photo essay explores the practice of digital self-portraiture as an epistemological practice. Drawing on the well-established role of photography within the anthropological canon, this photo e...
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Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Garima Jaju
The field site is the retail showrooms of a fast-expanding organized retail company selling budget eyewear products across shopping malls and high streets of urban India. Through a thick descriptio...
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Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Luis M Hernandez Aguilar
Based on a digital ethnography on the imageboard platform 4chan/pol, this article traces the biopolitical compression of Population Replacement Conspiracy Theories into memes, which have populated ...
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Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Jessica Barnes, Mariam Taher
This paper presents a mode of collaboration between a researcher and research assistant for ethnographic data collection. We describe our experience as a researcher, who previously conducted fieldw...
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The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Phoenix Chi Wang
Borrowing from scholarship on emotional labor, emotion management and symbolic power, this article highlights emotions’ symbolic role in sustaining the vital correspondence between the reality of s...
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Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Aleena Sebastian
Matrilineal practices constitute an important aspect of the social organization among the Minangkabau Muslims of West Sumatra. Challenges were posed to the co-existence of customary practices and r...
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The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Samuel Dinger
This article is an ethnographic study of a sakan shababiyy––a non-familial domestic space shared by young Syrian men living in exile. Based on fieldwork carried out in Lebanon between 2017 and earl...
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Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Dominika Czarnecka
This paper adds to the limited number of studies about physical autonomy and practice shifts among fitness instructors who responded to the change brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and moved t...
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A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Alex Simpson
The immersive ethnographic tradition has strong potential to contribute to a deeper sociological understanding of the construction, maintenance and processes of powerful groups. However, ethnograph...
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Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Samantha Leonard, Ann Ward
Many ethnographers had to reconceptualize or withdraw from their fieldwork due to COVID-19. While the process of exiting the field has always interested ethnographers, the pandemic has spurred furt...
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Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Ruo-Fan Liu
This research suggests three ways in which hybrid ethnography can be used to overcome the shortcomings of single-realm ethnography, in particular, ethnographies that situate solely in the offline o...
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Emotion and othering in a contaminated community Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Laura B Hart
This article focuses on community responses to residential toxic exposure in eastern Sandusky County, Ohio, where 35 children were diagnosed with or died of cancers of the brain and central nervous...
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Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Millie Creighton
Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is famous for its over 2200 Buddhist temples. People contribute to these temples as charitable work, to fulfill social or sacred obligations, or show they are “good ...
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Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Catherine Larouche
In Uttar Pradesh, many middle-class Muslims increasingly view local and transnational religious giving as a pragmatic way to create tangible socioeconomic improvements in the lives of underprivileg...
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A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Blair Sackett
Front-line workers, or street-level bureaucrats, who interact directly with clients, have significant discretion over clients’ lives. Drawing upon ethnographic observation in Kakuma refugee camp in...
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Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Mara A. Leichtman
What is the role of transnational non-state philanthropic actors in the Kuwaiti humanitarian mission abroad? How does humanitarian aid reinforce and (re)conceptualize Kuwaiti notions of citizenship...
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No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Sanam Roohi
This article focuses on the transnational giving practices of Kammas (a dominant caste in Coastal Andhra, South India) by examining their records, standing myths and evolving iterations around the ...
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Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Tom Widger
Through an historical ethnographic analysis of Sri Lanka’s oldest charity, the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society, this article explores changing modalities of humanitarian “relations” in colonial and ...
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Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Sanam Roohi, Catherine Larouche, Leilah Vevaina
Conceptualising giving as a broad category encompassing philanthropy, charity, humanitarian aid and gifts, this Special Issue brings together researchers whose ethnographic and theoretical work exa...
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Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Peter Sutoris
This ethnographic study of environmental learning in a South African township school unravels how formal education can depoliticise young people’s understandings of environmental decay. Conceptuali...
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Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Evan T. Koike
One of the most influential nonprofit organizations in Japan’s contemporary parenting movement, Fathering Japan has a mission to “increase the number of smiling fathers” and to eliminate obstacles ...
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Jala Role: Normative Practice of Collaborative Ethnography in a Hostile Research Frontier, South Omo, Ethiopia Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Yidneckachew Ayele Zikargie
This article outlines the significance of a normative social and cultural practice, Jala role, for collaborative ethnography in a hostile research frontier. Based on self-reflective notes and field...
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The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Afsane Rezaei
This article draws from fieldwork with Iranian-American Muslim women in Los Angeles to address the difficulties of occupying a halfie position in the ethnography of faith. While halfies are assumed...
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Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Peter Anton Zoettl
In Brazil, a growing number of young citizens from the socioeconomic periphery embark on a career in crime, earning their living by armed robbery or selling drugs. Through the life stories and narr...
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Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Michael L Siciliano
In this article, I draw upon 20 months of participant observation to compare the labor processes of routine, office staff in the popular music and digital content industries in the U.S. In both cas...
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‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 Ariane d’Hoop, Jeannette Pols
In many countries the lockdown measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic forbade social gatherings, including for performing arts. Numerous artists developed projects, often attempting to reach...
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Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Lotta Junnilainen
For a long time, researchers have explored practices of kinship, but while focusing on individuals and groups, have ignored a crucial aspect of social life: place. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork...
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Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Leonora Dugonjic-Rodwin
Asking how being ‘international’ relates to privilege, I analyse a role-play game, the Students’ League of Nations, where pupils and teachers from select international schools simulate the UN Gener...
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Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Anaïk PIAN
This article, based on fieldwork conducted in 2016 at the French national Court of Asylum (CNDA), explores reflections on the role and position of interpreters in the examination of asylum applicat...
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Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Rui Hou
With the tremendous advancements in Internet, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence, the power and potential of digital technologies has a special appeal to political rulers. How can qual...
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The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Wenzhen He
As concepts of place, locality, and localism have been abundantly discussed separately but seldom juxtaposed, the close examination of the divergence and complementarity among Place, Locality, and ...
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Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Julie Spray
Analysing emotions such as love can enable new ways of understanding human relationships and deepen reflexive ethnographic practice. Love in research with children, however, carries a unique set of...
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Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Abir Mohamad Ismail
While a large body of auto-ethnographic literature focuses on the bias associated with conducting methodological research as ‘insiders’ and examines the implications of their backgrounds for their ...
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Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent” Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Loïc Wacquant
Backed by 3 years of apprenticeship in a boxing gym of Chicago’s hyperghetto and in-depth life-story interviews with fifty professional boxers, this article reconstructs the social biography and ring career of a professional “opponent” as a living analyzer of the social, economic, mental, and emotional wheels and cogs of prizefighting careers. An “opponent” like Jake “The Snake” Valliance is a boxer
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Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto
In this article, we argue that two significant shifts, namely, the blurring of lives offline and online and the increasing significance of the visual character of these lives, pose new challenges to social science research methods. We propose the application of snap-along ethnography to address these challenges. Snap-along ethnography is an ethnographic method with three core features: (1) participant
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Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Dominic Pasura
This article examines, from a theoretical and empirical perspective, the types of diasporic leisure experienced by the Zimbabwean diaspora in Britain through extensive fieldwork, including interviews and participant observation. It extends an emerging body of scholarship concerning the relationship between diaspora and leisure by discussing different conceptualisations of diasporic leisure as homeland-oriented
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‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Enni Paul, Liz Adams Lyngbäck
The aim of this article is to critically examine ideas about language and integration in a non-governmental integration programme targeting parents of small children in Sweden. Through ethnographic and netnographic fieldwork of parenting experiences it is revealed that monolingual ideologies conflate with iconic figures reproducing and reinforcing language norms. Some parents – i.e. non-white non-Swedish
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The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Ivana Acocella
The article investigates how young Muslims born and/or raised in Italy perform ‘acts of citizenship’ combining religious belief and civic engagement. We present the results of 40 in-depth interviews carried out with young Muslims active in two associations: Giovani Musulmani d’Italia and Islamic Relief. The aim is to explore how the tactics of visibility, the strategies of recognition ‘from below’
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The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Giuliana Sanò, Pamela Pasian, Francesco Della Puppa
This article discusses the results of ethnographic research conducted in the municipality of Verona (Veneto Region, Northeast Italy), during 2018, aimed at analysing the reproductive health needs of migrant women, and their access to such services in the territory. The research highlighted that, in addition to many critical structural-organizational issues, there was an emotional obstacle to the use
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Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Juan M. Solís, Eduard Ballesté-Isern, Miquel Úbeda
This article investigates how structural violence is reflected in the daily life of the peripheries of a medium-sized city in the interior of Spain. For this, three categories of analysis are used: inquisitive violence, coercive violence and horizontal violence. Forms of resistance are also highlighted. This makes it possible to trace the various ways that state institutions act and behave to exercise
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From the street to the drug consumption room. Injected drug use across consumption environments Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Rafael Clua‐García, Guillaume Dumont
Previous studies have reported that injected drug use cannot be understood in a spatiotemporal vacuum but, paradoxically, they have tended to analyze this practice in a single environment instead of examining how people who inject drugs deploy their agency across environments. This ethnographic account describes and analyzes how David, an injected cocaine user, moved from the streets of Barcelona to
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Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Chenyu Wang
Liberal arts education is highly commodified, yet it also boasts to cultivate critical thinkers and progressive changemakers. What exactly is the kind of “critical mindedness” that liberal arts institutions produce? Drawing from Bourdieuan concepts and recent anthropological work on elite subject formation, I explain how undergraduate students in an elite, predominantly White institution refashion
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On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Elena Giacomelli, Sarah Walker
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, migration was framed in Italy as ‘the emergency within the emergency’, leading the Italian Government to declare that its ports were not ‘‘safe places’ for people rescued from boats flying a foreign flag to disembark.’ As a result, under this guise of health and safety, in Italy migrants are now held in cruise ships repurposed as quarantine-ships for their sanitary
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Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Joshua B Fisher, Alex M Nading
How can we live well together? The question is critical for cities, where “wicked problems” like failing infrastructure, natural and industrial disaster, and epidemic disease pose threats to diverse forms of life. Because such problems are by definition world-shattering, it is notoriously difficult for city-dwellers to agree on how to think about them, much less overcome them. This essay sketches a
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Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Layla Zaglul Ruiz
The Fair Trade movement aims to provide producers and workers at the tail end of the value chain with secure working conditions and just incomes. However, the certification standards generated by these goals are often incompatible with the regional production systems. By comparing two Costa Rican banana farms––one Fair Trade, one conventional-my research reveals that Fair Trade regulations fail to
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Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-05-08 Maj Hedegaard Heiselberg
This article focuses on children’s reactions to military deployment from the perspective of their parents. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Danish soldiers, their female partners and young children over the course of military deployment, the article illustrates how parents’ attempts to access whether their children will suffer from the long-term absence of their father influence parenting practices
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‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Jonathan Ngeh
In the literature on migration to the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), authors generally mention that labour migrants, predominantly from South and Southeast Asia, live in overcrowded, low-class accommodation, sharing rooms and ‘doing bed-space’, without giving a clear picture of what this practice entails. This paper is an ethnographic account of what it actually means to live in ‘bed-space’
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‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Mari Korpela
This article discusses ethnographic fieldwork among nine- and ten-year-old children in an international school in Finland. It elaborates on the myth of going native and on the researcher’s performance and negotiation of various roles, along with the improvisation this requires. Ethnographers cannot escape certain roles that are given to them but they can strategically use these and other roles to establish
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Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research Ethnography (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Christoph Vogel, Josaphat Musamba
Scholarly engagement with ethics, epistemologies and positionalities dilemmas in conflict research is marked by a disconnect between self-referential debates in the Ivory Tower and the very places research takes place. If there is reflection on foreign researchers, research brokers or research participants, accounts of genuinely collaborative work are rare. Drawing from a decade of collaborative research