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: reflexivity
Making connections under the banyan tree and other such spaces
Melissa and Christos reflect on methods in multimodal ethnography to think about how these might relate to knowledge exchange
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: 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: 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: postcards and polaroids
Melissa Nolas describes the use of postcards and polaroids as a cultural intervention to challenge the dominant cultural narratives of childhood
Photo/stories from the field: Do greens stand for fire-blocks or for nature-preservation?
Christos Varvantakis reflects on walking practices and embodied encounters with green space and the environment
Photo/stories from the field: the photo-camera has a video function!
Early in the research we provided each child with an inexpensive digital photographic camera to use as part of the data production. The idea was that children would make pictures […]
Photo/stories from the field: Configuring matters
Christos and Melissa reflect on ‘configuring matters’ as a research method to help rethink popular social science representations of relationships