...), which names coercive drug treatment centers run by and for the informal working poor. In putting the ethnography of an anexo in dialogue with Reygadas’s film, this article develops a picture of precarious sociality in contemporary Mexico, one shaped by neoliberal reform and drug-related violence...

... between European cosmopolitanism and the Greek archaic, marginalizes. I am interested in the ethnography of the every day that lacks the securities, facilities, and utilities of a homogenizing and synchronizing context. In the agonistic interplay between the macrological and the everyday, time and space...

... and disaster relief. Bringing together ethnography and the social study of science and technology, this article illuminates uncertainties inhabiting military protocol in a crisscrossed public-private infrastructural universe. Focusing on the crucial predawn hours when rogue tsunami waves push against...

... with (because everything is impossible) is nothing, which is both impossible and extinguishing. The author argues through her ethnography that the creative lived response to the tyranny of consistency is immanent ethics, an ethics that is committedly, if inconsistently, inconsistent. Copyright © Duke...

... prose as his engravings, and by embedding natural specimens in a web of reference that was commercial and ethnographic in character. Sloane did not envision a categorical distinction between what we would term botany and ethnography. Natural history , rather, provided a unified early modern framework...

... voice in calls to provincialize and provisionalize knowledge. 15 Anthropology’s particular contributions to these discussions have emerged largely from the centrality of ethnography to our discipline, a practice that comprises both dwelling and writing. 16 And yet, the commitment to meaning...

... account of fossil infrastructure in “Covehithe” offers one answer to these questions. The second point to conclude my discussion of thinking infrastructure is about forms of thinking that are themselves infrastructural. In her seminal provocation, “The Ethnography of Infrastructure,” Susan Leigh Star...

... of “the body and the quasi-human agents that constitute it” (184) within the context of an ongoing ethnography of gender, sexuality, health, and toxicity in Martinique. 3 For a critique of Goffman’s lauded ethnography On the Run , see Sharpe, “Black Life, Annotated.” 4 Tenzer, “Feminism...

... these reproductions arise remains alive and vivid: to dismiss it on this account would be mistaken. Here we glimpse the contradictory and trans- formative power of such experience uncovered by ethnography. Nadia Seremetakis argues...

..., the collection as a whole opens the question of how and what the discipline of anthropology and the practice of ethnography have to say to and about these spaces that seem on the surface so desolate. What role do they have to think with or through these spaces, and what right? What is the purpose of entering...

...) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism (Sage), Feminist Thought: Power, Desire, and Academic Discourse (Blackwell), and Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (University of Minnesota Press). Luciana Parisi is senior lecturer in digital media and course tutor...

...-centered tools of ethnography to further uncover the security logics, technologies, and actors that sustain US empire, with the express goal of challenging and ultimately “refusing” them. 7 Many of these studies have rightly pushed back against the spatial and temporal fixedness often attributed...

... historians and producers, Precarity Lab engages with this different moment of digital precarity by drawing on methods from ethnography to computing to visual analysis to oral history and archival research. 2 Our work traces the uneven distribution of digital life by mapping out digital inequalities...

..., Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005). For Tsing, friction is ideologically unfixed; that is, it serves hege- monic and counterhegemonic purposes: “Friction is not just about slowing things...

...). In this ethnography of the state, blacks will appear as its representatives, its consultants, its employees, and as community advocates in state-funded institutions, as freelance activists, or as ordinary citizens who question or otherwise thwart its power. A national census is most fundamentally a state...

... that of their unmaking on the margins of the construction of the modern center of power. In her urban ethnography that links the history and everyday life of Bahla to larger changes in the Omani state and the Persian Gulf area, and to other global forces that impinge...

...”, 328 . 2 Quoted in Helmreich, “Nature/Culture/Seawater”, 132 . 3 Star, “Ethnography of Infrastructure”, 380 . 4 Marx, Capital , 279 . 5 Starr, “Ethnography of Infrastructure”, 382 . 6 Larkin, “Politics and Poetics”, 330 . 7 Berlant, “Commons”, 403...

..., Aborobe, Nkrumah, Akumaa, and Abena Birte. 1. Ethnography’s greatest methodological strength — detailed, contextually spe- cifc analysis based on long-­term participation —  raises at times analytic quandaries, as researchers struggle to show local particularity without...

.... Ethnographi- cally, I argue that contemporary Kriolu rappers in Lisbon are motivated by an existential tension embedded in the concept of “Kriolu” resulting from complex patterns of migration and peculiar histories of Luso-­African Social Text 119 • Vol. 32, No. 2...

... Relations against Pipelines .” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 9 ( 2018 ): 40 – 56 . Star Susan Leigh . “ The Ethnography of Infrastructure .” American Behavioral Scientist 43 , no. 3 ( 1999 ): 377 – 91 . Wallerstein Immanuel . The Modern World-System I...