Walking in Young Peng’s Shoes
Fei Xiaotong, the late Chinese anthropologist, believed that the best way to study China was by acquiring “intensive, firsthand knowledge of Chinese society itself.”…
Read MoreFei Xiaotong, the late Chinese anthropologist, believed that the best way to study China was by acquiring “intensive, firsthand knowledge of Chinese society itself.”…
Read MoreThis interactive piece was inspired by a year of teaching myself Old English, and my interest in the interactive ethnography, The Long Day of…
Read MoreLet me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once more. Along with him,…
Read MoreI’ll start with the most embarrassingly candid disclosure one could possibly make in the context of this thematic week: I am not such a…
Read MoreInformation and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations (such as the sending…
Read MoreThe study of bureaucracy has become a standard prerogative of English-language anthropology in recent years. Long gone are the days when bureaucracy was considered…
Read MoreAt the beginning of 2017 many Russians living with HIV/AIDS were told by their doctors that there were no antiretroviral drugs for them. They…
Read MoreThis week Allies will once again be in action – this time at the 2017 EASA LawNet Workshop in Bern on September 19-21! The workshop engages…
Read MoreEthnographic experimentation refers to an ethnographic modality where anthropologists venture into the collaborative production of venues for knowledge creation that turn the field into…
Read MoreI take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about….
Read MoreMy goal is to skirt gingerly around evidence leaving it just where it lies, and instead to prod the contingent margins where iterative social…
Read MoreThe theme of #pragmatisms comes from my fieldwork with a handful of civil movement organisations in Seoul during the mid-2000s. It was a buzzword…
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