Ethnography
Ethnography continues to offer a detailed and grounded empirical study of the myriad changes that are remaking the face of contemporary societies as a result of the sweeping restructuring of economy, society, culture and politics across the globe. As embedded and embodied social inquiry, the craft of ethnography is uniquely poised to fulfil this need and advance our in-depth understanding of these changes.
Ethnography is an international and interdisciplinary journal for the ethnographic study of social and cultural change. Bridging the chasm between sociology and anthropology, it is the leading network for dialogical exchanges between monadic ethnographers and those from all disciplines involved and interested in ethnography and society. It seeks to promote embedded research that fuses close-up observation, rigorous theory and social critique.
The journal publishes pieces in a variety of formats and styles (ranging from analytical articles, epistemological tracts and photographic essays to experimental narratives) and is keen to broadcast work "fresh from the field", including that conducted by younger practitioners of ethnography.
An interdisciplinary approach
Ethnography addresses ethnographic findings and methods in a broad interdisciplinary understanding of culture, domination and social structure. It fosters work that pays equal attention to the minutiae of experience, the cultural texture of social relations, and to the remote structural forces and power vectors that bear on them. The journal also re-engages field-based research with larger sociopolitical projects, including the identification and formulation of the different possibilities of 'social becoming' in an era of intense change.
Fusing theory and close-up observation
Ethnography operates as an international forum for the collective development of a theoretically informed methodology for ethnography. Offering an alternative to both naturalistic qualitative research and abstract social theory, it publishes articles that stress the need for an encompassing theoretical sensibility involved in how ethnography is actually practised and written.
Special features
Ethnography publishes papers in a wider variety of formats, genres, and styles than any comparable journal in order to give free rein and full bloom to the ethnographic imagination. In addition to standard research articles, it includes the following rubrics:
'Tales from the Field': experimental or narrative pieces that take the reader into a particular social world and convey the 'feel' of an event, relation, situation, place, or phenomenon through depictive techniques and textual devices that foreground lived experience and carnal presence
'Ethnography's Kitchen': a 'how-to' section featuring critical reflections on the practice of fieldwork designed to foster reflexivity in ethnography so as to clarify and bolster the standards of the craft
Thematic Issues: examining topics of wide scholarly as well as civic interest that bring together inquirers from several disciplines who do not normally engage each other. Recent special issues dealt with "Critical Ethnography and the Neoliberal City" (guest edited by Robert P. Fairbanks II and Richard Lloyd) and "Urban Ethnography" (guest edited by Elijah Anderson).”
Unrivalled international breadth and scope
Edited by leaders in the field, with a distinguished editorial board that includes active field workers from all over the world, and the entire spectrum of disciplines concerned with culture and society, Ethnography offers unrivalled international scope. It is essential reading for all those interested in ethnographic work, particularly practising ethnographers.
Ethnography is on SAGE Journals Online.
Ethnography is a peer reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal for the ethnographic study of social and cultural change. Bridging the chasm between sociology and anthropology, it is the leading network for dialogical exchanges between monadic ethnographers and those from all disciplines involved and interested in ethnography and society. It seeks to promote embedded research that fuses close-up observation, rigorous theory and social critique.
The journal publishes pieces in a variety of formats and styles (ranging from analytical articles, epistemological tracts and photographic essays to experimental narratives) and is keen to broadcast work "fresh from the field", including that conducted by younger practitioners of ethnography.
An interdisciplinary approach
Ethnography addresses ethnographic findings and methods in a broad interdisciplinary understanding of culture, domination and social structure. It fosters work that pays equal attention to the minutiae of experience, the cultural texture of social relations, and to the remote structural forces and power vectors that bear on them. The journal also re-engages field-based research with larger sociopolitical projects, including the identification and formulation of the different possibilities of 'social becoming' in an era of intense change.
Fusing theory and close-up observation
Ethnography operates as an international forum for the collective development of a theoretically informed methodology for ethnography. Offering an alternative to both naturalistic qualitative research and abstract social theory, it publishes articles that stress the need for an encompassing theoretical sensibility involved in how ethnography is actually practised and written.
Special features
Ethnography publishes papers in a wider variety of formats, genres, and styles than any comparable journal in order to give free rein and full bloom to the ethnographic imagination. In addition to standard research articles, it includes the following rubrics:
'Tales from the Field': experimental or narrative pieces that take the reader into a particular social world and convey the 'feel' of an event, relation, situation, place, or phenomenon through depictive techniques and textual devices that foreground lived experience and carnal presence
'Ethnography's Kitchen': a 'how-to' section featuring critical reflections on the practice of fieldwork designed to foster reflexivity in ethnography so as to clarify and bolster the standards of the craft
Thematic Issues: examining topics of wide scholarly as well as civic interest that bring together inquirers from several disciplines who do not normally engage each other. Recent special issues dealt with "Critical Ethnography and the Neoliberal City" (guest edited by Robert P. Fairbanks II and Richard Lloyd) and "Urban Ethnography" (guest edited by Elijah Anderson).
| Sarah Bracke | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Francio Guadeloupe | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Loïc Wacquant | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Peter Geschiere | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Jan Willem Duyvendak | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Paul Willis | Beijing Normal University, China |
| Mats Trondman | Linnaeus University, Sweden |
| Dastan Abdali | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Anna Esther Younes |
| Michel Agier | Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France |
| Elijah Anderson | Yale University, USA |
| Arjun Appadurai | New York University, USA |
| Javier Auyero | State University of New York, USA |
| Huw Beynon | Cardiff University, UK |
| Jan Blommaert | Tilburg University, Netherlands |
| Philippe Bourgois | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Matthew Brannan | Keele University, UK |
| Phil Carspecken | Indiana University, USA |
| Nick Crossley | University of Manchester, UK |
| Veena Das | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Mitch Duneier | Princeton University, USA |
| Bob Emerson | University of California at Los Angeles, USA |
| Willem Frijhoff | Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Marie Gillespie | The Open University, UK |
| Arlie Hochschild | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Bob Hollands | University of Newcastle, UK |
| John Hughson | University of Central Lancashire, UK |
| Jack Katz | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Arthur Kleinman | Harvard University, USA |
| Ching Kwan Lee | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA |
| Minhua Ling | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Mohammed Maarouf | University of El Jadida, Morroco, Morocco |
| Sherry B. Ortner | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Ben Rampton | King's College, London, UK |
| Nancy Scheper-Hughes | University of California, USA |
| Rachel Sherman | New School University, New York, USA |
| Abdou Maliq Simone | Goldsmith College, London, UK |
| Stephen Smith | European University Institute, Florence, Italy |
| Carol Stack | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Florence Weber | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France |
| Terry Williams | New School for Social Research, New York, USA |
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