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Doing Ethnography on Sexuality Among Young Men in Dhaka, Bangladesh: How Has Reflexivity Helped?
Ethnographic research tries to obtain a holistic picture of the study subject. It emphasizes portraying the everyday experiences of individuals by...
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Sensing and (Re) Imaging an Urban Enclave Through Application of Visual Streetscape Ethnography: A Study of Twin Chinatowns in Kolkata
The relationship between an ethnic group and the physical environment is a reflexive set of social, spatial and economic interactions. The urban...
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Colonial Ethnography and Uneven Intimacies in Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling
This chapter tackles colonial ethnographic narratives, specifically Stevenson’s Pacific writings and Kipling’s works about India. Stevenson and...
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Desires and Fears in the Invisible Eternal City
Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities fell into my hands again as I was writing up my ethnography of Rome. I first read it in my late teens, way before I...
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Detecting Nepal’s position in the global context of language planning and policy
Worldwide language planning and policy (LPP) research has demonstrated a paradigm shift from a traditional approach to the ethnography of LPP. The...
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Method and Methodology
This chapter presents the methods used to gather and analyze the data that this thesis is based on. It also positions ethnography inside the...
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Ethnographic Fieldwork as Point of Departure for World Literature
This introductory chapter explores the three focal points of the book: world literature, anthropology/ethnography/fieldwork and ethnographic...
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The Double Marginality of Peripheral Locations
Through the main concepts of peripheral locations and double marginality, this chapter presents an innovative approach to reading and understanding...
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How Do the Urban Poor Survive? A Comparative Ethnography of Subsistence Strategies in Argentina, Ecuador, and Mexico
Drawing on ethnographic data collected in three informal communities, one in Argentina, one in México, and one in Ecuador, we address the...
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Green clashes: cultural dynamics of scales in sustainability transitions in European peripheries
A multi-level perspective (MLP) in studying sustainability transitions has proved its relevance in explaining the institutionalisation of...
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The Graphy in Ethnography: Reconsidering the Gender of and in the Genre
This chapter introduces the collection by discussing how the figure of Elsie Masson, Bronislaw Malinowski’s first wife, inspired the editors to...
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Gangs: Fieldwork Experiences, Ethical Dilemmas, and Emotions in Youth Street Groups Research
This chapter takes up the famous thesis that Robert Park exposed in his preface to The Gang (Thrasher, The gang: A study of 1313 gangs in Chicago....
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Southeastern Peripheries of Huaxia: The Historical-Cultural Interaction and Assimilation from Southern Man and Bai Yue of Mainland to Island Yi and Maritime Fan
In the macroscopic situation of ethno-history in the East Asia, the mainstream of ethnic relationships in diverse regions has generally come along...
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The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon
This article traces the case of Hala, a woman chronic patient of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders (LHMND) in late 1950s Lebanon....
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Un-finishing Memory
Memory plays a significant role in anthropological research and in ethnographic exchange. In anthropological disclosure, the memories shared during...
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Global Participation in the North: Exploring the Issues of Silent Participation and Building a Zone of Identification in a Hostile Digital Environment
This article aims to bring about a discussion of online ethnography, and ethnography as an element of nexus analysis (Scollon and Scollon in Nexus...
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Learning from Contextual Diversity: Urban Sprawls of Greater Melbourne (West) and Chandigarh (Periphery) and Approaches to Their Sustainable Growth
The relationships of the expression and phenomenon of ‘urban sprawl’ with suburban and regional urban growthsUrban Growth in spatio-temporal,...
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The Destiny of Urban Peripheries: Downtown Tel Aviv’s Contested Realities
This chapter explores the changing circumstances effecting the process of transformation of two adjacent down-town Tel Aviv neighbourhoods. Observing...
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Gendered Mobilities: A Critical Approach Towards Understanding Social Exclusion Through the Lens of Mobility
The limited resources of the urban peripheral areas possess the potential to transform into situations that offer various kinds of opportunities....