On transitions, change and continuity…
This time five years ago I was busy drafting job descriptions for the recruitment of those strangers that would eventual make up the wonderful team of colleagues that have been […]
Tag Archives: photo-stories
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
Photo/stories from the field: inside out
Melissa Nolas shares an extract from her fieldnotes, where a reaction to a sarong in a window emblematizes the boundary work in ethnographic research
Photo/stories from the field: do you obey your husband?
Melissa Nolas describes research encounters on the thresholds: fleeting feelings, conversations, and experiences on the way out the door
Photo/stories from the field: encountering emotions in the field
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores messy emotions in everyday life, and calls for a new framework to recognise the value of emotion and affect in research
Photo/stories from the field: the traffic, fear, and the city
Vinnarasan Aruldoss reflects on how children’s experiences of public places impact everyday life, play, visiting friends, and navigating neighbourhoods
Photo/stories from the field: lunch encounters and ethnographic distractions
Food, a full plate of memory, and an anthropology of not paying attention: Christos Varvantakis explores the materiality of food in research settings.
Photo/stories from the field: those books of fieldwork and parenting you know don’t exist
Melissa Nolas explores some of the emotionality in fieldwork relationships of care and concern between researchers and participants
Photo/stories from the field: the curtain as a signifier of ‘private’ and ‘public’ in the research space
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores the ways participants create symbolically private and public spaces through material practices
Photo/stories from the field: postcards and polaroids
Melissa Nolas describes the use of postcards and polaroids as a cultural intervention to challenge the dominant cultural narratives of childhood