Experiments in Worldly Ethnography

This volume experiments with ‘worldliness’ as found in theory, method, and □eldwork practice. It provides readers with ten unique case studies that grapple with worldliness as an affective, relational, sensory, and multimodal experience. Attending to globalisation’s undulations and futures, the collection features research projects from around the world, as well as writing in a re□ective register about ‘global’ topics – including human traf□ficking, international adoption and migration, popular pedagogies, □nancial crises, data□cation and AI, and terrorism and civil war. The book is an invitation to use ethnographic practice in a way that recognises the value of ‘present conjunctures’ to interrupt and disrupt disciplinary ways of thinking. It is a provocation to collapse boundaries and scales between material and symbolic worlds, to explore connections between the human and the non-human, to work with entanglements of matter and that matter, and to feel or sense – rather than know or explain – one’s way through ethnographic encounters. The volume will be of interest to upper-level students and researchers in anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, especially those interested in global ethnography and the possibilities of qualitative research. <p>1 Ethnography at the worldly edge<br><i>Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Rachael Stryker, and Christos Varvantakis</i><br>2 Biopedagogy and school-based social reform via Waldorf (Steiner) education: the ethnographic importance of paradox<br><i>Elisa J. Sobo</i><br>3 Ethnographer, interrupted: revisitation as worldly ethnography<br><i>Rachael Stryker</i><br>4 Minting worlds: economic minors tracing money in a 'Global' Financial Crisis<br><i>Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, and Vinnarasan Aruldoss</i><br>5 Data ethnography: doing multimodal ethnography in a data and AI-driven world<br><i>Veronica Barassi</i><br>6 Ethnographic filmmaking for understanding peacebuilding: a multisited and multimodal approach<br><i>Colleen Alena O’Brien</i><br>7 The affective resonance of violent acts: doing ethnography on a risky planet<br><i>Joshua McNamara</i><br>8 A translocal ethnography with survivors of human trafficking: a sensorial, hyperlink cinema narrative<br><i>runa lazzarino</i> <br>9 The poetics of resonance: worldly ethnography as empathic and aesthetic attendance<br><i>Simone Toji</i><br>10 The seeing body and the feeling eye.<br><i>Michele A. Feder-Nadoff</i><br>11 Looking for the margin: an ethnography of gradualness<br><i>Jasamin Kashanipour</i></p>