Towards a compassionate turn
This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors.
Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families
In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families.
‘Friendnography’ and the ethical questions it raises
Of all the hundreds of photos on my old phone, there was only one that I absolutely had to get
Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the Affective Ripples of Ethnography
This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’.
In the Face of Fury: Holding Disruptive and Connective Intensities through Poetic Resonance
In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis.
Pyropoetic Resonances: Humility, Affect, and Being in the Field (on Fire)
This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern Germany.
The Anthropologist as Tuning Fork
This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.
Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art of Living Together: Timor-Leste’s Aspirational School Curriculum
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum.
Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture, and Rebuilding Academia Otherwise
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in