Now out in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa
Category Archives: ethnography
Comparing what? Conceptualizing comparison in ethnographic research
OUT NOW – Special Issue of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa XII: 2
https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1973-3194
Book review: “Drift” by Jeff Ferrell
Atmospheres of retail and the asceticism of civilized consumption (with Mattias Kärrholm)
Nout out in Geographica Helvetica – https://www.geogr-helv.net/73/203/2018/
An interview with Elijah Anderson
From the iconic ghetto to the cosmopolitan and beyond (with Chiara Bassetti)
now published in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa
L’etnografia e i sensi: una riflessione preliminare
Introduzione al monografico su “L’etnografia e i sensi”, Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, n.1/2016
Early morning – As the city wakes up
La dimensione aurale. Nota per un’urbanistica sensoriale
Asian sleeps
Visual, Visible, Ethnographic
The paper explores visibility as a category to describe certain characteristics of the social that can be observed by ethnographers. The field of visibility spans the most immediate interactions that take place in a situated context and mediated social relations. Visibility offers a useful comparative tool to research because very different practices can be compared as specific configurations or regimes of visibility. The effects of visibility are contingent upon the type of regime, as the cases of recognition, control, and spectacle illustrate. The paper does not seek to propose visibility as a catch-all term; rather, it suggests that ethnographic research is inevitably concerned with how features of visibility are employed by actors to introduce thresholds of relevance in the definition of relational territories. In its attempt to understand the constitution of social territories as ‘locales’, ethnography cross-cuts the distinction between the how and the why of observed phenomena.