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- Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death
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Authors: Diane Kholos Wysocki
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This article is about a journey that I took with my mother as she left us. It is an article using an autoethnographic approach which allows me, the writer, to use both my personal pain and thoughts as a way to give peace, understanding, and perspective of the time before my mom’s death. This article is also about giving a framework for those who will also go through the same experience with an aging parent, to both take away the stigma of death and to help the reader be present in a tough situation. For me, it was an honor to be with the woman who brought me into this world and to be able to be alone with her as she left.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2023-03-10T09:00:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416231160776
- Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel
Boomtown-
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Authors: Christine M. Labuski
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
COVID-19 has radically reshaped the labor dreams of many U.S. workers. This essay uses pre-pandemic fieldwork in an oil and gas “boomtown” to consider post-work imaginaries in the wake and midst of COVID-19. I use feminist and disability studies perspectives to argue that economic analyses must not only move beyond the discourse of “jobs” but must also attend to gender-based and ableist modes of discrimination that persist even in so-called booming economies. I posit the figure of the economically productive worker, asking how routine practices of identity-shaped discrimination undermine the capacities of some to embody this figure. My interview-derived and ethnographic data suggest that economic self-sufficiency is a woefully inadequate model for meeting the material needs of people, and that labor innovations such as a universal basic income are necessary to achieve the kinds of flourishing sought by those participating in the “great resignation.”
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2023-02-07T01:10:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416231153059
- Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to
Digital Observations-
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Authors: Thea Rabe
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
Although digital ethnographic studies concerned with online misinformation have focused on analyzing the contents shared by “cloaked” profiles (concealed or fake identities), less attention has been given to the epistemological and ontological dilemmas that cloaked profiles pose to digital ethnography. This article deals with these issues by asking: how can digital ethnographers determine who and what we are observing' And how can we conduct online observations when confronted with cloaked profiles' Drawing on field research, this article argues that researchers would benefit from including more critical reflections on the presence of cloaked profiles and learning how to apply digital skills for how to unveil cloaked profiles. Such practices will challenge a commonly accepted ontology that online profiles represent human behavior and enhance researchers’ digital literacy and ability to recognize cloaked profiles. Finally, applying techniques to unveil cloaked profiles will arguably strengthen the hermeneutic process of knowledge production in digital observations.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-11-04T06:19:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221135498
- Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia
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Authors: Zareen Thomas
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This research is based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork with a formalized youth hip-hop organization in Colombia whose broad work with youth included a mission of women’s and girls’ empowerment. Throughout this article, I show how young women, through their affiliation with this professionalized organization, utilized city spaces to articulate opposition to gender-based inequalities and marginalization, within a larger context of protracted armed conflict and everyday violence. In these spaces, women configured themselves as hip-hop “guerreras” (warriors) and “luchadoras,” (fighters) to convey their fortitude while minimizing risk. I argue that they balanced “uncivic” modalities of hip-hop with a civic language of empowerment to garner support for their labor and causes. By examining women’s NGO affiliations and their creative performances, I show how women simultaneously reinforced sanctioned rhetoric of empowerment while strategically carving spaces to craft media intended to challenge dominant ideologies.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-10-22T06:13:08Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221126519
- Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and
Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility-
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Authors: Rachelle Miele
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This autoethnography explores my experiences as a hospital entrance screener during the first wave of the pandemic in a hospital in Ontario, Canada. In April 2020, I was redeployed from my research role to a hospital entrance screener. Focused on my lived experiences, the purpose of this research is to provide a glimpse into what it was like to work in a hospital early in the pandemic, to understand these experiences in relation to sociocultural meanings, and to try to make sense of my experiences with COVID-19. Through reflections, I offer a critical account of my experiences working as a screener and analyze personal reflections about my thoughts, feelings, and experiences from a post-structural lens. My analysis reveals several themes: responsibilization, risk, emotional labor, policing and securitization, and the hero discourse. My experiences as a screener demonstrate the complexities of the COVID-19 society and experience.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-10-17T05:26:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221131512
- Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are
Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia-
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Authors: Vasilina Orlova
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
Framing “immobility” as already containing mobility, this research asks why people stay in conditions of economic disadvantages and social abandonment even when they have tangible opportunities to leave. Based on ethnography conducted in Eastern Siberia, this research investigates how people throughout the region maintain connections to one place: the village of Anosovo. I argue that the notion of “affective infrastructure” can encapsulate a multiplicity of ties connecting people to places. Affective infrastructure refers to the capacity of “hard” infrastructural agglomerations—such as pipes, wires, and buildings—to evoke feeling, and to the “social” infrastructure such as kinship ties, memories, attachments, and human–nonhuman relationships. Seeing people as always already included in the agglomerations of affective infrastructures opens the space to see them pinned down to the place even as their neighbors leave while the hopes for improvements of conditions are bleak.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-10-12T05:47:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221130940
- The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study
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Authors: Julia Goldman-Hasbun
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
Freedom of speech has long been considered an essential value in democracies. However, its boundaries concerning hate speech continue to be contested across many social and political spheres, including governments, social media websites, and university campuses. Despite the recent growth of so-called free speech communities online and offline, little empirical research has examined how individuals embedded in these communities make moral sense of free speech and its limits. Examining these perspectives is important for understanding the growing involvement and polarization around this issue. Using a digital ethnographic approach, I address this gap by analyzing discussions in a rapidly growing online forum dedicated to free speech (r/FreeSpeech subreddit). I find that most users on the forum understand free speech in an absolutist sense (i.e., it should be free from legal, institutional, material, and even social censorship or consequences), but that users differ in their arguments and justifications concerning hate speech. Some downplay the harms of hate speech, while others acknowledge its harms but either focus on its epistemic subjectivity or on the moral threats of censorship and authoritarianism. Further, the forum appears to have become more polarized and right-wing-dominated over time, rife with ideological tensions between members and between moderators and members. Overall, this study highlights the variation in free speech discourse within online spaces and calls for further research on free speech that focuses on first-hand perspectives.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-10-12T05:43:08Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221129880
- An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR
“Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors-
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Authors: Phiona Stanley
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
While much has been written to guide early career researchers (ECRs) and those charged with socializing them into academic ontologies, much less is known about ECRs’ own experiences of becoming academic. This article presents a narrative, new-materialist account—drawing on Facebook updates and personal diaries—of one ECR’s experience. Interdisciplinary theorizing is proposed, using work-types and zones-of-development models. Individualism is problematized within three contexts: autoethnography as method, the materiality of affect within ECR assemblages, and the limited capacity of any individual ECR to effect systemic change. As ECRs are driven to produce ever more, and thus to “succeed,” they are their own nexus of accountability, making overwork and burnout endemic. So, although ECRs may progress from adaptive to technical work and from proximal to actual zones of development, their workload has no ceiling. Issues of “balance” are therefore retheorized within the assemblage, with extant models critiqued as problematically dependent on neoliberal framings of individual responsibility.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-09-15T06:40:52Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221120819
- Memory Politics on a Neighborhood Scale: Uses of the Past in the Historic
Center and the Periphery of Valencia (Spain)-
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Authors: Hernán Fioravanti, Albert Moncusí-Ferré
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This article analyzes the production of memory on a neighborhood scale, comparing the different logics that shape narratives about the past in the historic center and a peripheral area of the city of Valencia (Spain). We analyze the uses of the past developed by three kinds of actors: local institutions, social movements, and residents. This line of research shows that administrators boost aestheticized memories oriented towards commodification and tourist promotion in the historic center and towards an unconflicted representation of interculturality in the periphery. These hegemonic narratives are being reproduced, appropriated, and negotiated by social movements and local residents, who replicate some elements of the official narratives while, at the same time, resignifying other parts and claiming neglected and erased memories. Urban memories function, therefore, as a political arena for the imposition and negotiation of different dynamics and transformations experienced at the local level.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-09-02T11:06:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221121341
- Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic
Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK
Offshore Drilling Platform-
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Authors: Nicholas Norman Adams
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This study explores the multiple and distinct cultures of oilfield masculinity uncovered during an embedded ethnographic study of masculinities onboard a remote UK offshore drilling platform. Oilmen revealed shifting interpretations for how risky and dangerous oil work “should be done.” Changes led to the construction of three distinct masculine cultures intertwined with positive safety behaviors and one culture intertwined with negative risky behaviors. Tracing the trajectory of Connell’s hegemonic masculinity theory, no singular “hegemonic” or dominant masculinity existed in the oilfield. Also, unlike some existing oilfield research, masculine reformations and subsequent divisions and associations between local cultures were triggered by factors independent from shifts in workplace policies. Rather, and linking with emerging research exploring “manhood acts”; oilmen consciously reformulated their masculine identities, embodying self-awareness and self-reflection for reimagining processes, and themselves recognized each industrial identity as unique and capable of cultural support or resistance. Perspectives of growth for “hegemonic” masculinities theory are presented, alongside suggestions for further examination of masculinities in understudied male-dominated workplaces, to further expand the “manhood acts” research perspective.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-08-06T04:31:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221116658
- Interaction Rituals at Content Trade Fairs: A Microfoundation of Cultural
Markets-
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Authors: Andreas Gebesmair, Christoph Musik
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
In this article, we show how ritualized periodic encounters of business partners help to reproduce business relations and a shared understanding of doing business based on ethnographic fieldwork at six international trade fairs in three different cultural industries. We draw on Randall Collins’ theory of interaction rituals (IRs), which highlights the relevance of emotional contacts in social life. Although Collins’ theory and his conceptional instruments help to shed light on a neglected aspect in the sociology of markets, our results go beyond his ethological interpretation of interactions. First, we conclude that Collins underestimates the direct impact of the uneven distribution of economic resources on IRs. Second, we observed not only emotional entrainment in IRs but also the strategic production of emotions.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-08-04T05:06:09Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221113370
- “The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers-
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Authors: Assaf Lev
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is a widely known phenomenon among gym goers. For many of them, experiencing DOMS the day after working out in the gym is often perceived as rewarding and something of which to brag and be proud. Although existing work within the biomedical field has undoubtedly shed light on coping with and managing DOMS, there remains little in-depth qualitative research on the gym goer’s lived experience regarding this phenomenon. Following Becker’s conceptual framework of using marihuana for pleasure, the article will examine the way gym goers learn to attain pleasure and gratification in times of DOMS through a process of reframing and socialization. Ethnographic research was conducted for two years in two gyms, using a combination of participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Findings illustrate three coherent stages a novice gym goer experiences while becoming an experienced gym goer and enjoying DOMS: (1) learning the proper “working-out” technique required to experience positive effects; (2) recognizing the effects of DOMS and their connection with the workout; and (3) enjoying the effects of DOMS caused by working out. Moreover, once gym goers manage to change the definition of negative sensations and interpret them as enjoyable, DOMS often becomes an indispensable experience that has to be religiously pursued. In this context, the audience in front of which the gym goers perform their DOMS serves as a “front region of behavior” for gaining social recognition by instrumentalizing their pain to strengthen and solidify their gym goer identity.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-07-22T05:26:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221113369
- “Mimicked Winks”: Criminalized Conduct and the Ethics of Thick
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Authors: Liora O’Donnell Goldensher
First page: 139
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
Thick description has long been the standard for both credibility and quality in ethnographic, community action, and participatory observation research across the disciplines, but I argue that researchers have an ethical obligation to consider when to decline to describe thickly. When ethnographers write about actions their informants took that broke, skirted, or challenged laws and rules in service of meeting their own basic needs, anonymization is not enough. We risk drawing the attention of law enforcement or hostile regulators to whole communities employing those practices, rendering their future actions more highly policeable or criminalizable—even if we do not intend to do so, and even if we adequately conceal the identities of the particular individuals described. I suggest five principles for ethical description of criminalized or policeable conduct: justified disclosure, substituting thick description of evidence of a practice for description of the practice itself, balancing thickness with thinness, telling stories when the risks of criminalization are decreasing, and narrating affinities with less-surveilled practices.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-04-26T11:35:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221094653
- Street Art Commodification and (An)aesthetic Policies on the Outskirts of
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Authors: Otávio Ribeiro Raposo
First page: 163
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
In this article, I discuss how street art has become an ally of urban policies molded by the creative city paradigm in marginalized neighborhoods of Lisbon (Portugal). Based on a dense ethnography of a peripheral neighborhood of this Southern European city, I follow the trail left by how public power uses the commodification of street art as an instrument for urban regeneration, touristification, and management of inequalities. The different meanings and interests around this policy are examined in street art festivals and tours, focused on the participation of young people as local guides. This urban policy has changed the negative public image of the neighborhood, with street art being combined with a multicultural experience commodified in guided tours for tourists. However, by ignoring the opinions of the residents on the interventions, this policy follows a top-down approach in which street art aesthetics operate as a device of subjugation and maintenance of the subaltern, beautifying processes of exclusion.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-04-23T11:36:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221079863
- Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Welfare-Providers to Seafarers and
the Symbolic Construction of Community-
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Authors: Nelson Nava Turgo, Wendy Cadge, Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Helen Sampson, Graeme Smith
First page: 192
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
Seafarers who call into ports usually hope for, or anticipate, a visit from people who provide them with welfare services—from SIM cards and mobile top-up vouchers to religious or nonreligious reading materials, and free transport to the nearest seafarers’ center or shopping mall. In seafarers’ centers, seafarers can normally use free internet facilities, enjoy drinks from the bar, avail themselves of remittance services, and if they wish, practice their faith in rooms/chapels dedicated to religious observance. While port chaplains are usually the people that seafarers associate with welfare services, port chaplains are not alone in providing these services—there are also paid staff and volunteers working in seafarers’ centers. This worldwide community of welfare providers displays the patina of a homogeneous bloc, sharing the same functions, activities, and end-goals in their everyday pursuits in ports and seafarers’ centers. However, this belies a more complex and sometimes fractured community of welfare providers in ports. While their services could be described with one coherent narrative of kindness to strangers, members of this community come from different backgrounds and are employed by different welfare organizations, and in the case of port chaplains, by different religious maritime charities with varying theologies. As a result of this, and the challenges to and changing contexts of maritime welfare services, in ports worldwide, this community is riven with contestation and everyday politics, which may be associated with a symbolically constructed community. This article expands on these issues. It is underpinned by research into welfare provision in two UK ports and in five other countries. It highlights narratives of unity and conflict, opening the doors to a community of people rarely noticed by social scientists.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-05-10T06:22:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221092001
- Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties
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Authors: Cornelia Mayr
First page: 218
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on the processes and practices of cuddle parties. Data was collected from a combination of participant-observation, interviews, and diaries aimed to understand and interpret this unique form of intimate interaction. By disentangling bodily disciplines and dramaturgical (self-)presentations, this study explores how and to what extent cuddle party participants embody safe and nonsexual touch experiences in forms of “playful” interaction rituals. Alongside the chance for participants to explore bodies, with permission, this study concludes that cuddle parties are experiential, bounded playgrounds where both intimacy and touch are (re)created in the context of loosened normative, relational, and sexual constraints.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-06-20T05:21:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221100581
- Terminating a Wanted Pregnancy: A Feminist, Analytic Autoethnographic
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Authors: Batsheva Guy
First page: 243
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
With screening for fetal anomaly becoming more common, more families are faced with making decisions based on receiving fetal anomaly diagnoses after the first trimester. After receiving a diagnosis of fetal anomaly, which is typically associated with shock and denial, pregnant people and couples immediately become faced with a difficult decision of either continuing or terminating the pregnancy. Once a pregnancy termination decision has been made, following abortion of a wanted pregnancy, feelings of grief and sadness are common. While research has been done on the impact of decision-making and mental health diagnoses pre- and post-terminating a wanted pregnancy, there has been little research detailing effective coping strategies for dealing with these unexpected and devastating circumstances. The current study is a feminist analytic autoethnography, which details the experience of my own abortion through a reflexive account. I aim to explore my own methods of coping that were successful as I overcame grief, guilt, and anxiety after terminating my wanted pregnancy due to a fetal anomaly.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-06-24T05:50:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221106467
- #LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black
Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends-
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Authors: Nora Gross
First page: 261
Abstract: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This ethnographic study follows a group of Black teenage boys in their Philadelphia high school and online in the years following the shooting death of their friend. Within their peer group, the boys generally focus their shared memorializations on upbeat and affirming reminiscences, protecting each other from sadness but constraining their own emotional displays. In contrast, in the boys’ private worlds, most spend years actively working through their grief in material and embodied ways, including through objects they keep or wear. On social media, these private and public worlds converge as the boys regularly share their private grief expressions with public audiences and define their digital identities by loss. Contrary to popular worries about adolescent social media use, this research finds that for grieving Black boys online worlds offer unusual space for emotional freedom, social support, and solidarity around loss and a counter to restrictive racialized and gendered feeling rules.
Citation: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
PubDate: 2022-07-01T05:57:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/08912416221105869
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