Photo/stories from the field: portrait of an ethnographer
Christos Varvantakis and Melissa Nolas explore what it means to be an ethnographer and do ethnographic research, highlighting the value of play as a research method
Christos Varvantakis and Melissa Nolas explore what it means to be an ethnographer and do ethnographic research, highlighting the value of play as a research method
Melissa Nolas describes research encounters on the thresholds: fleeting feelings, conversations, and experiences on the way out the door
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores messy emotions in everyday life, and calls for a new framework to recognise the value of emotion and affect in research
Vinnarasan Aruldoss reflects on how children’s experiences of public places impact everyday life, play, visiting friends, and navigating neighbourhoods
Food, a full plate of memory, and an anthropology of not paying attention: Christos Varvantakis explores the materiality of food in research settings.
Melissa Nolas explores some of the emotionality in fieldwork relationships of care and concern between researchers and participants
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores the ways participants create symbolically private and public spaces through material practices
Melissa Nolas describes the use of postcards and polaroids as a cultural intervention to challenge the dominant cultural narratives of childhood
Melissa Nolas explores how the use of photography and anonymous portraits helped to overcome some of the challenges in the ethics of representation
Christos Varvantakis reflects on walking practices and embodied encounters with green space and the environment