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”
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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”
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”
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”
