Introduction 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…… Read more “Towards a compassionate turn”
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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”
The ethics of mediation in conservation spaces
The author of this article prefers to remain anonymous. *** While states, extractive industries, pharmaceuticals, and trophy hunters continually occupy positions as amoral, neoliberal agents, the role…… Read more “The ethics of mediation in conservation spaces”
Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families
Nieves Galera Nieves trained in Psychology, and is currently a PhD student at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology of Autonomous University of Madrid. Using a sociocultural and…… Read more “Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families”
Orientalized Gender and the Field
Salma Moustafa Khalil Salma Moutafa Khalil is an ethnographer interested predominantly in the democratic Western state and how citizens interact with it. In conducting fieldwork in European…… Read more “Orientalized Gender and the Field”
Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field?
Emmanuelle Roth is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology. She currently conducts fieldwork in Guinea on the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak. She is interested in viral…… Read more “Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field?”
Competitive Hardship: ethnographic guilt and early-career pressure to conduct ‘authentic’ fieldwork
Jennifer Cearns is currently conducting ethnographic research in Miami, USA, and Havana, Cuba, focusing on practices of material and digital exchange, sharing and reciprocity within and between…… Read more “Competitive Hardship: ethnographic guilt and early-career pressure to conduct ‘authentic’ fieldwork”
Welcome to The New Ethnographer!
We are the new ethnographers. Some of our supervisors have warned us against embarking on this project (“it could damage your career”). Many of us are…… Read more “Welcome to The New Ethnographer!”
