Notes from a Blurry Border (part 2): Shatter the border!
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and France. What might the…
Tag: Fieldnotes
Three Lies of Digital Ethnography
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Gabriele de Seta, contributing the final post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. Three Lies of…
Wissen/Schaffen: From #Fieldwork to #Exhibition – A photo essay
In 2016-17, I did fieldwork on the materials of scholarship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, an institute of advanced study. For this investigation, I worked with “the stuff…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 6
This is part of #theimpossible series The Impossible Will Take A Little While, Chapter 6, Howard Zinn on “The Optimism of Uncertainty” Somewhat ironically, I took a week off…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 5
This is part of #theimpossible series The Impossible Will Take A Little While, Chapter 5, Danusha Veronica Goska’s essay “Political Paralysis” This is the last chapter in the first…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 4
This is part of #theimpossible series The Impossible Will Take A Little While, Chapter 4, Paul Hawken’s commencement address “You Are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring” “You ar…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 3
This is part of #theimpossible series The Impossible Will Take A Little While, Chapter 3, Marian Wright Edelman on standing up for children Before I start, is it strange…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 2
This is part of #theimpossible series The Impossible Will Take A Little While, Chapter 2, an excerpt from Jonathan Kozol’s Ordinary Resurrections The second piece seems to endlessly run…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 1
Kia ora. Kei to pēhea koutou? For the next ten weeks of weekdays–that’s 55 days in total–I’ll be reading & writing about each piece in Paul Loeb’s edited…
A fear that never ends #fieldnotes
I started my own journey in the Brazilian northeast, on the plane from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza, Ceará, with a dream. After wandering around the airport, hot…
Notes from inside a Twitter Experiment #EmergingDigitalPractices
Using participation in a collective online experiment with Twitter as a springboard, I interrogate the tweet as a fieldnote. How do the temporalities of tweeting intersect with disciplinary…
Follow up: #Tinder as a research method
Following the unexpected popularity of my May article Tinder as a Methodological Tool I was asked by Allegra to write a follow up expanding on the subject and…
Tinder as a methodological tool #EmergingDigitalPractices
Imagine being able to remotely and anonymously search through locals in your area, browse through pictures of them, and chat with those who also found you attractive. Imagine…
#Fieldwork among comedians: A Danish anthropologist trying to be funny
“Why are stand-up comedians better anthropologists than I am?” A few years ago, I started asking myself that question. As an anthropologist, I am supposed to know about…
On Extroverted Expertise, One-Handed Scientists & Dirty Laundry #REDUX
In 2014, Vincent Ialenti wrote about deflated optimisms among European scientists grappling with political questions about their legitimacy, the capitalization of their expertise, and the frustrations…
Fighting a wildfire on a gun range, or, the sensuous memories of #fieldwork
Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently in prison. Many western U.S. states…
Call for Guest Editors / Thematic Threads
The year 2017 is set to be a year where critical new insights are needed at all fronts. And Allegra Lab needs you! We are calling for proposals…
20 minutes in transylvania
On his fully equipped “Monster” hoverboard Mike, the teenage werewolf, speeds through “Transylvania,” the October 2016 version of “Subway Surfers”. Under a …
Cultural #evidence and the law
How do we decide whether or not to accept the evidence of our senses, or to put our faith in the statements of others? These are questions we…
Slam that #ethnography! – Introduction
Have you ever been in a conference room, listening to one presentation after another, only to realize that they all seemed strangely similar? As in, following the same…
The Fun of Student-Led Research
If you have been in a classroom recently, you probably noticed that students’ eyes are not always pinpointed to the professor. Many are concentrated on the suffused noise…
A Not-So-Wolfy Wall Street: A Study of Financial Players Risky Behavior and Their Proclaimed Elitism
The media and popular films like The Wolf of Wall Street have portrayed the financial world as a place of risky behavior, stress, and substance abuse, alimenting pre-existing…
#Reviews Week – and a Student-Led Research Project!
This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our frequent and much cherished reviewer Gabriela Radulescu explores…
Hunting in Northern Cyprus #Fieldnotes
November 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was not directly within the firing line but could…