Myths perpetuated by the Ghomeshi trial (re-blog)
(Re-blog from PressProgress.ca) A Toronto court heard final arguments Thursday in the trial of former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi is charged with four counts of sexual…
(Re-blog from PressProgress.ca) A Toronto court heard final arguments Thursday in the trial of former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi is charged with four counts of sexual…
Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang introduce China’s social media platforms Chinese social media is remarkable because despite extensive media coverage and academic research, these platforms remain s…
Dhruv Sharma has a background in anthropology, has worked in various countries as an ethnographer, and also holds a master’s degree in design ethnography from Dundee University. His doctoral …
Describing, in words, what it’s like to be at a rave is one of the most difficult things I’ve had to do for my research. How can one…
[Feb 9, 2016. Some thoughts on the Ghomeshi trial, as the third complainant’s testimony and examination is completed, and as we wait for Judge Horkins to rule on…
Robert Potts is a filmmaker, lecturer, designer, and PhD candidate at the HighWire Centre for Doctoral Training who takes special interest in a diverse range of subjects including shared narr…
The last four months of 2015 were tough. I was locking myself in a claustrophobic student carrel every day, spending 9 hours staring at a computer screen but…
This is the second of a two-part blog post in which Suzanne Z. Gottschang from Smith College outlines the benefits of integrating real-world examples into an introductory cultural…
I’ve been resisting following the Ghomeshi trial. Partly, I’m enabled by circumstance–a temporary fragility of anatomy with accompanying pain & analgesics have occupied me for th…
Recently, health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a travel alert for Central, South America and the Caribbean, some 14 countries and territories exposed to…
Here is a list of panels at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference entitled “Anthropological legacies and human futures” (Milan, 20-23 July 2016, #EASA2016)…
In this report we offer an overview of a two-day workshop entitled Ethnographies and Health that was held in October at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical…
This post is part of the Post Disciplinary Ethnography Edition. ‘Jargon free’ text is the name of the game according to the Ethnography Matters style guide, so titling…
The Ethnography Matters, Anthrodesign, and EPIC teams have created a Slack channel for conversations about ethnographic methods. At Ethnography Hangout, we are an interdisciplinary group wea…
Failed research projects ought to count for something! It’s too bad they don’t. They just disappear into nowhere, it seems to me: into filing cabinets, abandoned notebooks, or…
The editors of Ethnography Matters are pleased to announce that we’re back to our regular editorial calendar for 2016. We’ve set up a new series schedule for the year,…
By Allister Hill PhD student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne On Tuesday 15 December we wrapped up the last of the Digital Ethnography Reading Sessions…
by John Postill RMIT University Melbourne Draft chapter to the Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography Eds. Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway & Genevieve Bell January 2016 See…
There are so many types of “refugees” and many ways to describe them. We have used terms like Displaced Persons (“DPs”), Victims of War, Illegal Immigrants, Émigrés; each…
This is an extended version of an article orginally published in The Conversation. I am grateful to the editors there for their support and for helping myself and…
All anthropologists would agree that stereotypes cause harm and should be avoided. Yet anthropology mainly consists of generalisations about groups of people: the Nuer do this, the Trobriand…
The EASA Media Anthropology Network is organizing a panel entitled “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns” at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conf…
What are some of the primary concerns of Universal Health and access to quality health care? Among researchers doing studies in this area, these concerns have raised new…