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Ethnography
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  • Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography
           and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields

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      Authors: Nicholas Norman Adams
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      Energy-ethnographies of ‘closed’ workplaces detail practices for achieving robust, authentic research. However, few publications highlight -experientially- benefits of developing connections; learning specifics of environments, peoples and customs prior to beginning ethnography proper. Developing knowledge is (a) necessary for organisational locales, to achieve accurate, thorough and representative accounts of peoples, places, and cultures; and (b) grants the researcher ‘insider status’; enhancing depth, quality, authenticity and knowledge. Observations are deconstructed in the context of my past doctoral studies, where an ‘enhanced’ dual ‘embedded-actualised’ ethnography was used to examine linkages between oilmen, masculinities, and safety and risk practices onboard a remote UK North Sea offshore oil-gas drilling platform, with initial research conducted first in an ‘onshore’ site of labour. This ‘dual’ approach facilitated legitimacy, trust, rapport and acceptance, resulting in unique oilfield access, in-depth and novel findings uncommon of similar-topic research. A pathway for scholars to utilise methodological learnings vis-à-vis ‘embeddedness’ is presented.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-08-09T02:53:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241266923
       
  • When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral
           imperatives as constraints in the field

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      Authors: Michelle MacCarthy
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      Undertaking fieldwork in a remote location with limited health care and transportation comes with inherent risks, but doing so with a small child, in a place where understandings of illness and malice may be of a fundamentally different nature than in the ethnographer’s home e, brings additional challenges and highlights the ethical dilemmas we may face in the field. This paper describes how continued fieldwork became impossibe when my infant son’s illness led to dilemmas that precluded the continuation of fieldwork. I take this experience as a starting point to interrogate the nature of being and reality and its real-world affects when working cross-culturally, especially in the realm of “metahuman” actors; issues of gender, identity and power in a discipline that is coming to terms with its colonialist roots, and the ethics of fieldwork in precarious situations. It takes a “hesitant” approach to the writing of a reflexive ethnography that includes more than human agents in one of anthropology’s most iconic locales.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-08-09T02:47:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241266916
       
  • The conviction of the inevitable: Collapsism and collective action in
           contemporary rural France

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      Authors: Jérôme Tournadre
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      The idea of a possible collapse of thermo-industrial societies became more prominent during the 2010s, particularly in France. The present article investigates this phenomenon by focusing more specifically on the belief on which it is based: the conviction of the inevitable. How does this conviction, which mixes cognitive and emotional registers, come to grasp certain individuals' And what do these people do with it' Contrary to various studies in the social sciences, the ethnographic observation of two collectives that have been affected by this conviction and have settled in the French countryside makes it possible to draw the contours of authentic collective actions. The article also shows how this conviction arises or is reinforced, emphasizing the potential importance of certain personal experiences and certain structural tendencies characteristic of contemporary democratic societies. More generally, studying the conviction of the inevitable in the context of collective actions also helps to identify snippets of imaginaries and practices that are developing in the shadow of the Anthropocene.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-07-24T05:58:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241266936
       
  • New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized
           environments

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      Authors: Tuva Beyer Broch, Tom Bratrud, Marianne Lien, Cecilia G. Salinas
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      Digital Anthropology has in the past two decades emerged as a field that seeks to better grasp experiences of being human within digital technology and culture. However, digital technology is today so entangled in everyday practices that it gives as little meaning to single it out as a specific field of inquiry as it does to leave it out. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, one of the most digitalized countries in the world, we argue that the ubiquity of the digital re-actualizes classic debates in the discipline on ‘home blindness’ emerging from the methodological challenges of doing fieldwork in familiar surroundings. We argue that building on methodological and analytical perspectives from the home blindness debate can help us better understand what it means to be human in digital environments.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-07-21T02:32:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241266924
       
  • America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse

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      Authors: Aditya Srinivasan
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      How do things shift shape - both physically and metaphorically - as they transition across spaces and social contexts' Using ethnographic data gathered over ten weeks by volunteering at a donation warehouse for one of Syracuse, New York’s largest refugee resettlement agencies, I argue that the donations in question come to represent the peculiar moral economy of donation in America. In an economy that is fundamentally driven by capitalism, egregious consumption, wastefulness and inequality, donation represents an opportunity to reconcile American excess with the needs of the ‘vulnerable’. I leverage the concept of the ‘moral economy’ to articulate how donations take on new meanings as they transition across contexts, varyingly understood as personal artefacts, rubbish, material embodiments of generosity, and the building blocks of a refugee family’s future home. Although this logic is underwritten by the contradiction between excessive consumption and obvious need, I also reflect on my own assumptions concerning refugees, whom I had initially assumed would receive no succour from the purely material.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-07-20T08:24:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241260883
       
  • Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research
           avenue

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      Authors: Vera Lazzaretti
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      Heritage and security are distinct research topics in anthropology, but some of their connections have been unpacked, particularly in scholarship about heritage during conflicts and peace building. This article, however, brings them analytically together to understand how they entangle to shape cities and their futures. In scrutinising overlooked similarities between heritage and security, my longitudinal ethnography in Banaras (Varanasi) suggests that both intersect productively in anticipating and making urban futures. I argue that a Hindu majoritarian urban future—as materialised in the walls, signboards and checkpoints of the Prime Minister’s flagship Kashi Vishvanath Dham and Corridor—unfolded precisely through security and heritage. This future seems to be, at least partially, shared by those who are excluded from it. Bridging the largely disconnected anthropological scholarship on heritage and security, this article offers a first ethnographically-grounded theorisation of security and heritage as cross-fertilising urban processes that make futures.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-07-20T03:06:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241266918
       
  • Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds

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      Authors: Elisabetta Costa
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      The article contributes to ongoing conversations on digital ethnography as a methodological approach that in the last two decades has gained popularity across a large variety of disciplines and fields. It argues that the principles that lie at the heart of long-term holistic ethnographic fieldwork are of crucial importance for studying new digital worlds, especially communicative practices in private and semi-private digital spaces. It also claims that methodological innovations in the ethnographic study of new digital media are not necessarily beneficial to scientific knowledge production. Finally, the article invites anthropologists to contaminate the interdisciplinary field of digital ethnography with their commitment to long-term holistic fieldwork.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-06-17T09:30:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241260884
       
  • A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational
           engagements

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      Authors: Eva Kotašková
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      Drawing upon an ethnographic study of guided tours in Svalbard, in this article I explore how is the wilderness enacted as a situational and contextual outcome of more-then-human relations, emerging from engagements with the environment. As the engagements during the guided tours contest the often expected ‘purity’ of wilderness, I further investigate in detail when and how nature-culture dichotomy is both contested and re-produced in the enactment of wilderness. I argue that the nature-culture dichotomy constituting wilderness on Svalbard shifts from the idea of human-less nature to life in harmony with nature in which some human traces are present. This dichotomy then emerges from more-than-human relations. Further, I show that the character of wilderness is also emerging from different situations and contexts, where temporality, knowledge and dependency on self or others influence the engagements and more-than-human relations.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-06-10T02:37:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241260879
       
  • Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction

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      Authors: Anne Monier, Ashley Mears
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      Despite the importance of both gender and elites in contemporary social life, few empirical works examine gender among the elite. With a focus on embodiment, we develop a gendered theory of elite display, grounded in ethnographic observations of two elite spaces in which women are prominent: VIP clubs and philanthropy galas in the U.S. and Europe. Using a Goffmanian perspective, we examine the micro-dynamics through which elite bodies express status, in particular for women. We argue that, in elite social spaces, women’s bodies signify wealth, and their bodily rituals and displays concretize status distinctions. To do so, we analyze the management of bodies backstage, frontstage, and off-stage, showing that a hallmark of elite display is the careful obfuscation of differences and gaps between backstage and frontstage spaces, which serves to naturalize the status superiority of elites.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-05-13T08:29:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241232675
       
  • Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for
           multi-sited ethnography

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      Authors: Evanthia Patsiaoura
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      This article proposes a systematization of the within, between and beyond sites through which ethnographic field-making takes shape. It draws on fieldwork in Brazil, Greece, Nigeria, the UK and the social media among congregations affiliated with postcolonial Nigeria’s denominations of Pentecostal orientation. The main argument builds upon the conceptual continuum local–translocal–postlocal. Whereas the local exists through familiarity, the translocal emerges at the overlapping of familiarities, and the postlocal as a gesture of familiarity’s reconfiguration. This systematization advances epistemological and ethical extents of multi-sited ethnography, as it is premised upon the revision of designations identifying the research subject(s) as a ‘Nigerian Pentecostal diaspora’. While introducing a knowing of locals, translocals and postlocals over nationally, denominationally and diasporically bounded individuals, the continuum re-theorizes multi-sited-ness under local, translocal and postlocal affordances. In questioning identity designations, the paper foregrounds nuanced positionalities of ‘field’ constitutors to destabilize subtle conventions of totalization and the alterity-ipseity divide.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-05-09T05:31:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241246256
       
  • Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place

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      Authors: Keletso Gaone Setlhabi
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      Batswana (People of Botswana) traditionally celebrate the end of seasons with dikopelo musical performances. This paper discusses Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela’s dikopelo festive celebrations, an annual return of choirs to their performance grounds through the duality of home and away. The author, a performer, interrogates through participant observation in four performances from December 2015 to January 2019, the seventeen-hour performance from midnight until the following day at sunset. Her experience is conceptually framed on Van Manen’s four lifeworld existentials of lived space (grounds), lived body (performs), lived time (seventeen hours) and lived human relations (performers, family, supporters). In conclusion, she takes a reflexive position of the subjectivity of her experience in relation to her fellow performers’; the blurred boundaries of her academic/performer roles and fieldwork/post-fieldwork spaces as her dikopelo lived experience is beyond this study’s timeframe. Her reality as an ethnographer at home, is the constant negotiation of her multiple unending identities.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-05-07T01:37:55Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241251486
       
  • Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude”
           among survivalists in contemporary France

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      Authors: Sébastien Roux, Cédric Lévêque
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      In France today, an increasing number of people consider themselves to be “survivalists.” Presuming an inevitable crisis, they are organizing themselves to acquire and develop the skills, techniques, and knowledge they believe are necessary to survive the potential dissipation of mainstream ways of life. Based on ethnographic data collected in the Southwest of France, this article aims at understanding the motivations surrounding “preparedness”—as well as the discourses it generates and the practices it engenders—by repositioning them within the political and social context in which they emerge. For the most part, French survivalists develop traditional anti-liberal discourses, values, and practices, wherein notions of disaster or collapse are used as vehicles to promote a conservative political agenda. However, for some, prepping may also be a way to confront a feeling of the degradation of their lives, transforming survivalism into a paradoxical way of re/affirming one’s place in the world.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-04-23T12:26:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241246251
       
  • The observer observed: Ethnographic discomforts and (a)symmetrical
           relationships in a digital ethnography

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      Authors: Arantza Begueria, Roser Beneito-Montagut
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      This paper engages in a reflection about the use of social media to carry out fieldwork online for contemporary ethnography. The reflection is based on the ethnographer’s experiences of discomforts and affects in digital fieldwork, in which she used her own social media accounts to interact with the interlocutors recruited for the project as a means to create reciprocity with them. This article uses these discomforts as generators of ethical, epistemological and political reflections by discussing the positionality of the ethnographer in a digital fieldwork. Firstly, it delves into the potential of these discomforts as a reflective tool for knowledge generation. It also reflects on the power dynamics consequence of the position that the anthropologist occupies in the field. Finally, the article initiates a political reflection on academic life when extensive exposure to fieldwork breaks down the boundaries between work and personal life.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-04-18T11:44:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241246254
       
  • Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians
           conducting ethnographic research

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      Authors: Samuel Brookfield
      Abstract: Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
      For clinicians conducting ethnographic research, conflict can arise between the clinical understanding of beneficence, meaning to apply skills and knowledge for people towards whom there is a duty of care, and enacting beneficence through research, which can sometimes allow researchers to withhold assistance in the interests of generating data which may have a broader beneficent effect when applied. As a nurse and ethnographic researcher, I present three reflections on my own fieldwork with people engaging in recovery from harmful methamphetamine use, to explore how beneficence can be enacted in constrained and complex circumstances. These reflections provide the basis for a discussion of how relational ethics can reveal the fabric of microethical actions and decisions which comprise clinical and research interactions, allowing practitioners to demonstrate a continuity between how they enact principles like beneficence both in the context of clinical work and in the field.
      Citation: Ethnography
      PubDate: 2024-04-18T11:09:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14661381241237407
       
 
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