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“I always embraced some element of hauntedness as part of the pain & reward of ethnography. At midlife,it feels a little more serious, something to consciously consider...” Z. Fareen Parvez writes for us a poignant, honest piece on ethnography at midlife: ethnomarginalia.com/ethnography-at…

Yet another 🪶 in the hat of the Synecdoche, Pookie urban studies major w the brilliant Joshua Vargas screening his short film “Filipino City, American Time”. This superb film explores the spatial & temporal dynamics of the BPO industry in Philippines. We’re so proud of you, Josh! 💫

To more such ethnographic films!

Beautiful insights from my dear friend, Z. Fareen Parvez: "Just as my midlife musings keep taking me back to the importance of trusting the future, whatever it holds, I shall approach ethnography the same way – with surrender and faith..." ethnomarginalia.com/ethnography-at… via @ethnomargin

How does WHERE we write affect WHAT we write? Dr. Friederike Landau-Donnelly calls for "a more poetic, embodied engagement with the places we write in and about alongside an affective and spatially-attuned engagement with data" in this beautiful essay: ethnomarginalia.com/writing-differ…

"For women, even for privileged women like us, walking alongside a highway at midnight is an event." A late night women's walk provides the basis for Medha's beautiful reflection on urban living in our latest publication: ethnomarginalia.com/on-loving-a-ho…

In our latest podcast episode, we have a fascinating conversation with Angie Lederach about the participatory ethnographic research in rural Colombia behind her wonderful new book, Feel the Grass Grow. Please listen! newbooksnetwork.com/feel-the-grass…

Low key happy to see this essay that I wrote up. I found EM when I was looking for ideal writing spaces in 2019 :) Fielding the Familiar: Reflections on Researching the Hometown ethnomarginalia.com/2024/07/01/fie… via @ethnomargin

“In light of this hierarchy where distance from privilege becomes a hindrance to research, how might we make sense of the continued calls for rigorous & objective research?” ⁦Deepti Sreeram⁩ on fieldwork, familiarity, academia! Superb essay 🔥🔥🔥 ethnomarginalia.com/2024/07/01/fie…

Thanks Deepti Sreeram for trusting us at Ethnographic Marginalia with your words ❤️

“How can we pay attention to how we navigate distance? What forms of closeness allowed us better access? What forms of distance expanded the limits of fieldwork?” Deepti Sreeram writes a powerful essay on intimacy, familiarity, the politics of research: ethnomarginalia.com/2024/07/01/fie…

Cannot keep calm! The brilliant V. Chitra’s brilliant book is forthcoming with Cornell University Press. A multimodal, urgent ethnography of coastlines, climate change, calculations, care and crisis. Big congrats, C! ❤️ Pre-order here: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

Want to also plug an Ethnographic Marginalia podcast in which Dr V Chitra discusses the research & writing of the book. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/coastlines-cli…

Hi friends, I’m organising a session called “Feeling Fieldwork” on emotions, the body, and fieldwork for the ISA forum (see below) to be held in Rabat, Morocco in July 2025. Do consider submitting your abstract to the session if it interests you: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2…

"The question ‘What is the point of doing all of this now?’ dominates my thoughts, profoundly impacting my writing process, readings, and my free time." Read Shahdab Perumal's insightful reflection on ethnography in the shadow of genocide in Palestine: ethnomarginalia.com/2024/08/28/bea…

"What axes of citizenry do women still inhabit and claim as their own, in the light of publicly invisible sexual violence events, constrained to a space of socio-legal liminality?" Urmi's ethnographic fiction poignantly explores marital rape: ethnomarginalia.com/2024/10/10/of-…

So excited to share our newest must-read publication, from Roger Josue 🇵🇸, which uses research in Chiapas to show how "The bicycle provides migrants with the power to free themselves from the immobility imposed by the border:" ethnomarginalia.com/2025/01/10/cha…