Cultural encounters in the field: Finding a ‘home’ away from home
This article describes experiences from fieldwork research conducted in the districts of Paramaribo, Commewijne and Nickerie in Suriname across two months in the summer of 2015. This research focused...
View ArticleEntanglements that matter
Marking the launch of a new online journal entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, it is our intention and hope that the entanglements becomes an online point of destination for...
View ArticleWhere should a researcher posit her scholarly position in the field? A note...
This blog is about ethical reflexivity that drew upon my field research in Xi’an, China. I ask how a researcher should posit her scholarly position when processing communications with research...
View ArticleFour Challenges in Creative Collaboration and Non-Extraction: Notes from the...
Authors Abbey Pangilinan, Ica Fernandez, Nastassja Quijano and Cedrik Forbes discuss the challenges of data, government relations, ethics and public engagement in their research on the Philippine drug...
View ArticleEthnographic construction of a road: Notes on a nodal approach to a...
This contribution presents a modest insight into doing fieldwork on a road – the subject of the author’s research – by offering notes on a nodal approach to the road as an interchange of place and...
View ArticleEntering the field and discovering that I was ‘doing’ ethnography
This contribution presents a journey into how a researcher has developed meaningful relationships with research participants in the field. By flexibly adapting to the field, the researcher was able to...
View ArticleIn-betweenness: Doing research back home
While conducting research in my home city in a neighbourhood that I was not that familiar with, I was simultaneously an insider and outsider in this neighbourhood. For insiders doing research in their...
View ArticleAcknowledging the long-lasting effects of fieldwork experience: emotions and...
In this piece, Émilie Fort shares her experience of returning home after fieldwork. She particularly discusses the long-lasting effects of emotions on the writing process. Fieldwork might be...
View ArticleTravels to the DMZ: Conducting Fieldwork in the Inter-Korean Border
The recent proliferation of border studies that accentuate the surreality of the DMZ as an empty no- man’s-land often contributes to this perception that has sustained and developed over time. With so...
View ArticleBook Review: Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research edited by...
In Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research, editors Robert Gibb, Annabel Tremlett and Julien Danero Iglesias bring together contributors to explore issues that researchers may encounter...
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