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The New Ethnographer

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      • ‘Friendnography’ and the ethical questions it raises
      • Friendships Built on (Dis)Trust: Navigating fragility during fieldwork
      • Towards a compassionate turn
      • The ethics of mediation in conservation spaces
    • Gender
      • The ethnographer’s body is gendered
      • Orientalized Gender and the Field
    • Health and Wellbeing
      • Dis/ability to do Fieldwork
      • Ethnographic Ableism: Structural Silencing of Physical Disability in Anthropological Research
      • Competitive Hardship: ethnographic guilt and early-career pressure to conduct ‘authentic’ fieldwork
      • Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families
      • Emotions of Friendship: The Psychological Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Xinjiang
    • Safety and Risk
      • Fear of/in the Ethnography
      • Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field
      • Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field?
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    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”

    February 26, 2019June 17, 2019 by thenewethnographer

    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”

    April 25, 2018May 23, 2018 by thenewethnographer

    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”

    April 25, 2018May 23, 2018 by thenewethnographer

    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”

    April 22, 2018April 25, 2018 by thenewethnographer
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