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Ghosted: Challenges to Conducting Qualitative Research in the Digital Era Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Blair Sackett
Electronic forms of communication—including email, texting, and social media platforms—have increased the speed and ease of communication. Yet, a rise in non-response and ghosting (when someone ceases communication without an explanation) has been documented across contexts, from romantic dating to quantitative research studies. Surprisingly, the rise of electronic communication has received little
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“I Don’t Come Here Just for the Food”: Manifestations of Care in Food Assistance Initiatives Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Fábio Rafael Augusto
This paper seeks to understand the social role played by food assistance initiatives in Portugal. Based on the understanding that these organizations are “spaces of care,” it is possible to reflect on the support provided by them in a more comprehensive and integrative way. Therefore, the various care practices that emerge in these organizational contexts are explored. This study presents a qualitative
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That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Todd H. Nelson
In this article, I describe two fieldwork experiences dealing with traumatic subject matter: a three-month trip to the Russian Federation, researching the crimes of Stalin against the Soviet population, and a two-week odyssey across Poland, researching memorialization of the Holocaust as it occurred there. I had a much more difficult time on the Polish trip. These trips took place at different times
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Having a Laugh and Negotiating the Situation: The Significance of Humor During Fieldwork Among International Teenagers Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mari Korpela
This article elaborates on the significance of humor and playful interactions in an ethnographic research project among 14- and 15-year-old teenagers in an international middle school in Finland. First, it discusses the role of humor among students and their teachers in the school. Second, the article elaborates on the role humor played when an adult ethnographer was negotiating her role and actions
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Navigating Academic Identity: Autoethnography of Otherness and Embarrassment Among First-Generation College Students Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Elazar Ben-Lulu
As a first-generation college student (FGCS), I have never felt entirely comfortable with this label, both in academic spaces and in various personal family situations. The notion of being a FGCS has evoked internal embarrassment, a sense of academic otherness, and external micro-aggressions. Through an autoethnographic analysis of my participation in the FGCS annual workshop, I explore the strengths
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Climate Activism and the Destabilization of Business-as-Usual in Milan, Italy Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Daniel Delatin Rodrigues
The aim of this article is to describe and analyse how climate activists in the city of Milan try to intervene in the production and consumption of fossil fuels. The material worked on here was accumulated over three years (2019–2021): it consists of field notes through participant observation, conversations held on messaging apps and documents made available to participants in the local coalition
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A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Georgina Tsolidis
There are two aims in writing this paper. Firstly, I reflect on several incidents that highlighted for me what it meant to be a widow in the eyes of others. The intention is to bring to light how becoming a widow reinforces how people define you relative to a man, more poignant because that man is absent. Providing personal insights sifted through theory is a form of feminist autoethnography that functions
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Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography of the Undersea? Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Julie Patarin-Jossec
This article relies on an ethnography of commercial divers that involves the author’s training, certification, and activity underwater to propose an ecofeminist analysis of the undersea (furthermore with the undersea). It presents how feminist environmental theory engages with the ethnographic method of immersion and how underwater fieldwork grounded in feminist theory contributes, in turn, to reflections
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Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Thaddeus Müller
In this article I focus on stigma, and more specifically on territorial stigma in a Dutch suburb built in the 1970s. This publication is based on ethnographic fieldwork that lasted two and half years and which took place at the end of the 1980s. The data is reanalyzed in the light of recent developments in studies on stigma and territorial stigma, specifically how this is countered. I will use the
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Inside American End-of-Life Doula Trainings through Analytic Autoethnography: A Social Movement for Death Positivity Manifests in a New Profession Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Aubrey DeVeny Incorvaia
End-of-life doulas (EOLDs) represent a rising profession and are becoming increasingly well-known through pop culture, yet associated scholarship is scant. Through a “sociology of professions” lens...
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“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Shaquilla Harrigan
Prior studies show how race, class, and gender matter for worker identities within organizations, but there is an opportunity to focus on worker nationality and class background within nongovernmen...
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Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Lauren Alex O’Hagan
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a major increase in anxiety and depression. For many, online music fandoms have offered an important platform to combat loneliness and aid well-being....
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It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Noëlle Rohde
Human life is increasingly quantified. From blood pressure to body mass index, from likes and retweets to performance metrics at work, from IQ results to facial attractiveness scores issued by smar...
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Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Diane Kholos Wysocki
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...
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Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Christine M. Labuski
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...
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Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Thea Rabe
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 bee...
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Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Zareen Thomas
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’ empower...
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Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Rachelle Miele
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...
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Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Vasilina Orlova
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 ...
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The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Julia Goldman-Hasbun
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, inclu...
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An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Phiona Stanley
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 aca...
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Memory Politics on a Neighborhood Scale: Uses of the Past in the Historic Center and the Periphery of Valencia (Spain) Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Hernán Fioravanti, Albert Moncusí-Ferré
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 ...
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Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Nicholas Norman Adams
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. Oilme...
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Interaction Rituals at Content Trade Fairs: A Microfoundation of Cultural Markets Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Andreas Gebesmair, Christoph Musik
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...
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“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Assaf Lev
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 somet...
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#LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Nora Gross
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 bo...
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Terminating a Wanted Pregnancy: A Feminist, Analytic Autoethnographic Account Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Batsheva Guy
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 diagnosi...
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Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Cornelia Mayr
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...
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Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Welfare-Providers to Seafarers and the Symbolic Construction of Community Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Nelson Nava Turgo, Wendy Cadge, Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Helen Sampson, Graeme Smith
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 read...
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“Mimicked Winks”: Criminalized Conduct and the Ethics of Thick Description Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Liora O’Donnell Goldensher
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 rese...
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Street Art Commodification and (An)aesthetic Policies on the Outskirts of Lisbon Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Otávio Ribeiro Raposo
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
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Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Bonifacio M. Amper, Jr.
Streets are public spaces where people pass through in going from one place to another. As such, streets are not supposed to be dwelling places. However, rapid urbanization has ushered in problems on housing, livelihood, and basic social facilities and services, giving rise to informal settlements and street living in cities. In Cebu City (a highly urbanized city in Central Philippines), displacement
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The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Pia Olsson
This article uses ethnographic social media analysis to interpret affective practices concerning research funding. The analysis is based on Finnish Twitter discussions both within academia and between researchers and those outside academia. Different kinds of affective practices, both sharing and othering, are present in the discussions that guide the ways we make sense of the role of science in our
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Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Piotr A. Chomczyński, Roger Guy, Rodrigo Cortina Cortés
Findings discussed in this article addressed a gap in the literature on cannabis markets in Mexico. This article primarily draws on interviews with (N = 64) street drug dealers including 24 incarcerated ones, and ethnographic work in 3 impoverished neighborhoods in Mexico City. We find that cannabis sellers enter the profession through early biographical experiences that are reinforced throughout adolescence
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Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Dylan Addison
Prison visitation transportation services perform an important yet understudied role in the process of prison visitation for many people with incarcerated loved ones. This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of the experiences of loved ones of incarcerated people using a small, Black-owned prison visitation transportation service. Prison visitation transportation services help to
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“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Patrick J. Burke
In this study, I seek to contribute to the literature on self-change and moral injury by providing an autoethnographic account of the processes through which I incurred “moral injury” while giving first aid to gunshot victims as a police officer on the Westside of Chicago. In particular, I aim to address the causes and consequences of failing to find a new identity that would allow me to adjust to
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The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Alison R. Buck
Sociologists have long known that wages are not all that attract highly skilled workers to jobs. Identity rewards in organizations of work are opportunities for workers to affirm valued identities. Past research has found that workers who value these rewards will protect them when they are threatened. Other scholars have shown that managers can use identity rewards to control and elicit cooperation
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From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Patrycja Trzeszczyńska
This article offers a reflection on a certain variant of broadening the position of “being inside” with some “buts,” or through “within but.” Drawing on my field experience in the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, I discuss the context-dependent, fluid and labile insiderness and the case of using a researcher’s embodied distinctions (senses, ethnicity, class) in the research site created by the fieldwork
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Researching While Trans: Being Clocked and Cooling Cistress Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Davida Jae Schiffer
In this article, I investigate how predominantly cisgender and straight participants of a university LGBT Ally Training program perceived transgender topics. As a trans woman, my positionality and gendered embodiment shaped my research process—depending on whether or not I was perceived as trans. Drawing on 21 interviews with 12 training participants and the training instructor, plus 12 hours of ethnographic
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On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Savannah Mandel
Designed based on careful specifications and regulations, commercial refrigerators can be found in almost all restaurants across the United States. In this article I explore the multifaceted role of the commercial walk-in refrigerator as a space of mediation, secrecy, and pacification among restaurant industry workers in central Florida. I analyze two years of ethnographic research conducted from 2015
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Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Kajsa Nolbeck, Helle Wijk, Göran Lindahl, Sepideh Olausson
The aim of this study is to explore social interactions in the spatial and material environment within everyday life at special youth homes in Sweden, where youths with psychosocial problems, or criminal behavior are cared for involuntary. A microethnographic approach was chosen, and data was collected through participant observation. A theory integrating analysis, using Burke’s (1969) dramatistic
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Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Halyna Lemekh
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the intricate relationships between three major ethno-racial groups residing in a suburban town in the New York metropolitan area. At the present time, the prosperous Korean ethnoburb is gentrified by Korean immigrants, triggering the displacement of the old-timers, referred to as the “White exodus” in this research. Granted that the cheap labor
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Autoethnography of Holy Death: Belief, Dividuality, and Family in the Study of Santa Muerte Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Kate Kingsbury
Through an autoethnographic account that interweaves academic observations, my story of how I came to study Santa Muerte in Mexico and the entangled, emotive tale of Abby, a Santa Muerte devotee whom I grew very close to, I discuss the topic of belief in the ethnography of the occult and the “politics of integration”, derisively referred to “as going native”. I reveal how being an ethnographer of the
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Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Nadia Rania, Rosa Parisi, Francesca Lagomarsino
The article is an autoethnographic account written by three Italian academic researchers and mothers with children of different ages. The authors engage in a reflection starting with their experience as working women committed to the work–family negotiation process while facing the COVID-19 health emergency that has affected the whole world. This article focuses on how we, as middle-class, heterosexual
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes! An Autoethnographical Perspective of Urban Walkability in Galway Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Mike Hynes
The need to reverse the harmful economic, social and environmental effects of car-dependent cities has intensified as evidence of its costs on health, communities, local economies, and climate change goals becomes more apparent. Part solution must be a focus on reducing the need for private car use and increasing instances of active and sustainable transportation such as walking. Walkability is the
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Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Salman Khan
Over the past year, COVID-19 and the restrictions imposed in its wake have meant that a range of research methodologies involving social contact could no longer be pursued. Whilst this time has been challenging, this article aims to showcase how it nonetheless presents opportunities for methodological innovation that can be carried forward into the future. Drawing upon an autoethnographic dissertation
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“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Kelsey Mischke
This research examines how feelings of body dissatisfaction arise, are experienced, and are managed over time. Analyzing female bodybuilders’ life histories, I find that negative reflected appraisals and social comparisons problematized aspects of each woman’s body during adolescence, generating body dissatisfaction and self-concept damage. Each responded by engaging in long-term body projects. These
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Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Sue Spurr, Rosaline S. Barbour, Jan Draper
Presented as a collaborative reflexive account, this article has evolved through a series of discussions between the first author—who carried out an “insider” ethnography of Shiatsu practice—and her two supervisors. We highlight the challenges that she faced as an ethnographer in a field already familiar to the researcher and demonstrate how it was possible to use this tension to advantage in crafting
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Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Bhakti Deodhar
Methodological literature on ethnographies of the far-right has largely centered around the ethical and political implications of such studies. Discussions on researcher’s positionality with regard to his/her insider–outsider positioning, ethnic-racial characteristics and concomitant power relations in the field remain relatively undertheorized. What occurs, for example, when the researcher studying
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Ethnography, Tactical Responsivity and Political Utility Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Naomi Nichols, Emanuel Guay
In this article, we address issues of attribution, utility, and accountability in ethnographic research. We examine the two main analytical approaches that have structured the debate on data collection and theorization in ethnography over the last five decades: an inductivist approach, with grounded theory as its main analytic strategy; and a deductivist stance, which uses field sites to explore empirical
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Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Cindy L. Cain, Brie Scrivner
Moments of ritual reveal symbolic meanings, reinforce boundaries of the social group, and tie actors to one another. Because rituals are so important to social life, ethnographers must be attuned to both institutionalized and everyday rituals of their sites. However, methodological literature rarely discusses how everyday rituals should be treated during data collection, analysis, or presentation.
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Navigating Ethical Quandaries with Close Personal Contacts in Qualitative Research Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Jeannette I. Iannacone, Lindsey B. Anderson
There are a variety of ethical situations that qualitative communication researchers must navigate. This point is especially true when the research involves close personal contacts, such as friends and family members. In order to problematize the ethical frameworks that guide qualitative inquiry and illuminate the complexities of relational ethics, we—the authors—reflected on our past experiences engaging
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Parts of Me—Relational Risks and Possible Outcomes When Sharing the Decision to Have a Breast Augmentation: A Study of a Swedish Online Forum Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Petra Roll Bennet
A female body part that gains much attention is breasts, and globally, the image of women’s breasts is a “perfect breast.” In order to attain this “perfection,” and for personal reasons, women can decide to augment their breasts by surgery. Despite the cosmetic industry’s increasing popularity, sharing this decision with family and friends can be associated with doubts and worries. This study aims
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The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen: Media(tion)s between Structure and Street Culture Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Hakan Kalkan
“Street culture” is often considered a response to structural factors. However, the relationship between culture and structure has rarely been empirically analyzed. This article analyzes the role of three media representations of American street culture and gangsters—two films and the music of a rap artist—in the street culture of a disadvantaged part of Copenhagen. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork
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Gender and Legitimacy in Personal Service Occupations: The Case of End-of-Life Doulas and Death Midwives Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Ara A. Francis
The emerging occupations of end-of-life doula and death midwife are part of a growing sector of personal service jobs. Designed to support, educate, and empower dying people and their loved ones, these new roles entail both the commodification of women’s unpaid labor and a repositioning of the paid work typically done by marginalized women. This study examines the identity talk of 19 occupational pioneers
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Why Should We Care What Extremists Think? The Contribution of Emic Perspectives to Understanding the “right-wing extremist” Mind-Set Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Hilary Pilkington
This article considers the implications of the mainstreaming of ‘right-wing extremism’ for what, and whom, we understand as ‘extreme’. It draws on ethnographic research (2017-2020) with young people active in movements routinely referred to in public and academic discourse as ‘extreme right’ or ‘far right’. Based on interviews, informal communication and observation, the article explores how actors
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“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Rachel Allison, Adam Love
We use the case of a recreational college Quidditch class to examine the consequences of gender-integrated sport for gender essentialist ideology. Data include ethnographic observations and course journal data from 23 first-year undergraduates playing Quidditch over four months. While a gender-integrated sport provided numerous opportunities for participants to witness similarities in performance among
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From the Fringe to the Fore: An Algorithmic Ethnography of the Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Group QAnon Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Peter L. Forberg
In this article, I examine the convergence of the socio-technological processes that enabled members of far-right conspiracy theory QAnon to expand beyond the “echo chambers” of the online fringe and incorporate themselves into mainstream discourse. Drawing on interdisciplinary research methods to focus on how technology is used in practice, I analyze QAnon’s online life through the concepts of algorithms
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Digital Encounters of Surrogacy: Nodes of a Fictional Ethnography Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Ivi Daskalaki, Anna Apostolidou
The article addresses the question of alternative ways to writing ethnography and more specifically, the ethnography of surrogacy. It focuses on the example of a digital ethnographic artifact that was created in order to host fictional representations of surrogacy practices. The article presents ethnographic material from a recent research project that focused on experiences of surrogate parenthood
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Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (IF 1.368) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 David Jian-Jia Cumming, Martin Gibbs, Wally Smith
Spectatorship is a core element of esports. Short for “electronic sports,” esports encompasses organized, professional competitive videogaming practices produced and consumed as a spectator sport. Esports’ computerized nature grants it a placeless quality, which creates ambiguities around what authentic esports spectatorship ought to be. Notably, some notions theorized prior to the emergence of contemporary