Bio: Samantha Streuli is a PhD candidate at University of California, San Diego. Her research centers on a vaccine-promotion health intervention taking place within the Somali refugee…… Read more “Unhealthy at the Health Fair: A personal account of chronic illness and disability in the field”
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Access and Agency of Women Ethnographers in Technical Leisure Cultures
The New Ethnographer will convene a Roundtable at the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting in Vancouver this November. One of our Roundtable participants, Dr Aleena Chia, Assistant…… Read more “Access and Agency of Women Ethnographers in Technical Leisure Cultures”
‘Friendnography’ and the ethical questions it raises
Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she is currently undertaking a project centred on the linguistic…… Read more “‘Friendnography’ and the ethical questions it raises”
Fear of/in the Ethnography
Dr Tarek Younis is cultural psychologist with a PhD/PsyD in Clinical Psychology. He is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London. His British Academy postdoctoral fellowship…… Read more “Fear of/in the Ethnography”
Friendships Built on (Dis)Trust: Navigating fragility during fieldwork
Hareem Khan is a cultural anthropologist based in the US, however, she is interested in the transnational webs that sustain and complicate diasporic realities. Her ethnographic research…… Read more “Friendships Built on (Dis)Trust: Navigating fragility during fieldwork”
Emotions of Friendship: The Psychological Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Xinjiang
Lisa Ernst is trained in Cultural Anthropology, Chinese Studies and Islamic Studies and is currently a PhD student in Central Asian Studies at the Berlin Graduate…… Read more “Emotions of Friendship: The Psychological Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Xinjiang”
Towards a compassionate turn
When The New Ethnographer launched in 2018, several decades had passed since the reflexive turn of the 1980s, in which anthropologists were asked to reflect thoughtfully on…… Read more “Towards a compassionate turn”
Dis/ability to do Fieldwork
Rine Vieth is a PhD candidate at McGill University in Tio’tia:ke/Montréal, Canada. They are currently researching how UK asylum tribunals consider religion and conversion, with a focus…… Read more “Dis/ability to do Fieldwork”
Ethnographic Ableism: Structural Silencing of Physical Disability in Anthropological Research
Micha Rahder is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Geography & Anthropology at Louisiana State University. Her research centers on the intersection of science and…… Read more “Ethnographic Ableism: Structural Silencing of Physical Disability in Anthropological Research”
Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field
Luisa Enria is a lecturer in International Development. Her work focuses on political violence, humanitarian emergencies and citizenship in Sierra Leone. 2017. They say they can’t tell if…… Read more “Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field”
