Poète en morceaux, morceaux de poète by Amalia Dragani

“…This article focuses on the somatization of the creative process through the exploration of the ethnographic case of Tuareg poets. By analysing two corpora—the texts in which the poets describe themselves as “inspired” and as “prey to inspiration” and the informal descriptions given by “flesh and blood” poets of the creative process in moments of informal conversation and during my observation of the creative act—I was able to identify two distinguishing features. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…Impurity has been highlighted by numerous authors in ethnographic and theoretical texts, but a comparison of these various works indicates a lack of theoretical development. …”
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Narratives of an exodus by Elhadj Ould Brahim

“…Using a combination of discourse analysis from social media and ethnographic data gathered from migrants before they encountered hayṭ Trump, this study delves into the factors driving this unprecedented migration wave. …”
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Uncertainty in action: observing information seeking within the creative processes of scholarly research by T.D. Anderson

“…</b> Two experienced scholars were observed as part of a two-year ethnographic study of their ongoing research practices. …”
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Reshaping health care governance using pilot projects as public policy implementation instruments by Mélanie De Winter

“…This paper, in which pilot projects are viewed as public policy instruments producing specific effects, addresses the research question: how does the use of multidisciplinary pilot projects as experimentation and implementation instruments reshape modes of public governance in the Belgian health sector in a context of transition and ongoing devolution? An ethnographic study was conducted, focusing on the specific case of the Belgian joint plan, “Integrated Care for Better Health”, which targets chronic patients and was intended to initiate a major transition from a fragmented to an integrated care system for chronic patients. …”
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Re-performance: a critical and reparative methodology for everyday expertise and data practice in policy knowledge by Susan Oman

“…Application of the re-performance methodology involves drawing from content analyses and ethnographic methods to understand the context of knowledge production as cultural production, and critical theory lenses to analyse these effects. …”
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Afghan Pashtun asylum seekers’ deportation issues and self-inflicted violence in Germany by Ashfaq takkar

“…This policy is justified by the claim that certain regions inside Afghanistan are considered "safe" for deportees, despite the escalating levels of violence observed in the country. This ethnographic study focuses more specifically on how deportation difficulties drive asylum seekers to self-inflicted violence and suicide. …”
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Des temples et des quartiers disparus en Chine by Adeline Herrou

“…It is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, whose heuristic value will be shown in order to understand not only the meaning that is locally attributed to these tabula rasa phenomena, but also how everyone’s zero point of observation (including that of the ethnologist) determines their perception of the event. …”
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Street Level Burocrats, welfare locale e transizione digitale: ostacoli e spazi di innovazione sociale by Maurizio Busacca

“…The article examines the adoption of digital innovation in the context of local welfare, focusing on the practices of labour market operators and social workers engaged in active labour market policy interventions in the region of Veneto. Through an ethnographic research, it highlights how three dimensions influence the adoption of technologies: institutional logics, organisational context, and professional discretion. …”
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Dal dono al souvenir. Pratiche del dare e avere tra economia del turismo e cultura dell’ospitalità by Lucilla Rami Ceci

“…The dynamics of knowledge are confused with those of the exchange and solicit reflections on the meaning of the gift and its utilitarian implications. The ethnographic and iconographic documents, collected by the author of the speech, during more ten years of research in South Jordan illustrate how the repertoire of cultural productions, narrative and objects is taking place into the global economic circuits. …”
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Rozwijanie zdolności samoregulacyjnych u dzieci w wieku wczesnoszkolnym – perspektywa kulturowo-historyczna. Etnograficzne studium przypadku by Ewa Filipiak

“…The article presents an ethnographic case study and analyzes the socio-cultural context of an intentionally created learning environment conducive to the development of self-regulatory abilities in children in their first year of school education. …”
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Frontières tacites. Confrontations et accords dans les favelas de Rio de Janeiro by Carolina Christoph Grillo

“…This paper addresses the spatial discontinuities produced by the dynamics of armed conflict and agreements between police, drug traffickers and robbers in the city of Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing the changes produced by the implantation of Units of Pacifying Police (UPP). Based on an ethnographical research conducted in favelas controlled by a drug trafficking faction before, throughout and after the occupation by the military police, this article analyzes the relations that result in the mapping of tacit partition of territories among urban violence actors. …”
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Sur les traces du Géant Patagon. L’histoire de la collection Henry de La Vaulx du musée du quai Branly (1896-1897) by Paz Núñez-Regueiro, Julio Vezub

“…After a discussion of the historiography which makes explicit the methodology, the article, at the crossing of ethnology, history and museum studies, presents the « colonial », « anthropological » and « ethnographic » dimensions of the collections, and raises the problem of the historicity of both narratives and objects in a context of crisis for the Patagonian populations.…”
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Politiser le regard sur les marges. Le cas du mouvement « sur la voie 96 » d’Imider by Soraya El Kahlaoui, Koenraad Bogaert

“…Starting from a long-term ethnographic study (2014-2017) on Imider’s “on the road of 96” movement, this article questions the processes of politicization of marginalized communities. …”
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From Saudi to Social Media: Arabization of Islam Via Salafi Instagram Accounts in Indonesia by Mirza Nursyabani

“…In support of this argument, this research involved an ethnographic data search by randomly sampling Instagram accounts that spread Salafism and are linked with the Arabization of Islam.  …”
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The permeable and the pervasive: Approaching an understanding of atmospheres of home among Tanzanian Indians by Cecil Marie Schou Pallesen

“…Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in an Indian migrant community in Tanzania and working with subtle details of everyday sensory and material practices in the home, the article explores how studying the atmosphere of home through permeability and the pervasive allows a closer understanding of the intimate politics of what it means to create and sustain a feeling of home as a marginalised but resourceful migrant minority.…”
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Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) et Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990) : les documentaires du New Queer Cinema by Camille Bui

“…Riggs proposes an essay film, thus doing away with cinematic realism, Livingston adopts a more classic style, close to ethnographic documentary. By analyzing the documentary poetics of the two films, this paper intends to show how the filmmakers develop different strategies of resistance against the “technologies of gender.”…”
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ILMU SABUKU, A LOCAL TAREKAT PRACTICED FOR CENTURIES BY THE BANJAR SOCIETY, SOUTHERN KALIMANTAN by Ahmad

“…Ilmu Sabuku teachings offer a deep understanding of the relationship between the self and the divine, as well as ways to work towards enlightenment and spiritual growth. Based on an ethnographic approach and data gathered through participant observation, in-depth interviews, and related documents, the result highlights the significant role of  Ilmu Sabuku in the religious, social, and daily life practices of the Banjar community. …”
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Placemaking through guerilla gardens at the TOKI mass housing grounds in Bor (Niğde) by Ufuk Soyöz

“…To answer these questions, ethnographic inquiry is conducted with the users of the guerilla gardens. …”
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Maps and Memory, Rights and Relationships by Sian Sullivan

“…In this paper I draw on archival, oral history and ethnographic material for north-west Namibia, particularly in relation to indigenous Khoekhoegowab-speaking Damara / ǂNūkhoe and ǁUbu peoples, to explore two issues. …”
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