9th Edition, 2023
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CONVENORS:Linda Haapajärvi, University of Helsinki / Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), linda.haapajarvi@ehess.fr (contact scholar) Linda Haapajärvi a migration scholar specialized in the ethnographic research of inequalities. Her current Academy of Finland funded research project focuses on the foundational role the practice of body repatriation plays in sustaining transnational families, communities, states, and markets. Trained as a…
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AbstractFrom the late nineteenth century onwards, the sale of sexual services has been seen as a form of patriarchal male violence against women, but also increasingly as a legitimate form of labour, thus mobilizing activists from feminist and religious organizations. In the 1970s, the foundation of the COYOTE organization in the US and the legendary…
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Convenor: Gabriele Cerati (University of Milano-Bicocca), Stefan Sjöström (Uppsala University) Contacts: gabriele.cerati@unimib.it ; stefan.sjostrom@soc.uu.se In the last 50 years, extensive transformations have occurred in how mental distress is conceived and treated. Two processes have been critical for this development. First, the biopsychosocial model of understanding of mental health distress was introduced as the results of…
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Sebastiano Citroni (Insubria University, sebastiano.citroni@uninsubria.it) Paul Lichterman (University of Southern California, lichterm@usc.edu) We invite papers that investigate civic action—by which we mean collective efforts to address social problems. The category of “civic” focuses us on how actors construct problems, organize people around those constructions and develop goals, whether those efforts are happening in social movements,…
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This session is aimed at exploring empirical studies combining social network analysis and ethnographic/qualitative research and in particular research programs that support the joint application of these approaches and/or integrate them in a mixed methods perspective. The use of ethnographies and field observations in social network analysis is long established and dates to the origins…
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Convenors: Sandra L. Trappen, Ph.D. (contact scholar) and Katherine McKlean, Ph.D., Penn State University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Contacts: slt62@psu.edu, Sandra.trappen@gmail.com, kjm47@psu.edu The COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold across the world and has entered what some now describe as its endemic stage. Despite the devastating impacts, the previous two years have offered insights into the (dys)functioning of global…
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Veronica MorettiUniversity of Bolognaveronica.moretti4@unibo.it Francesco Della PuppaCa’ Foscari University of Venicefrancesco.dellapuppa@unive.it In the last two decades, the use of comics and graphic novels has been growing in academic research, giving birth to a set of theoretical and methodological approaches included in the so-called “Comics based research” and “Ethno-graphic novel”. These approaches combine text and images…
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ConvenorsMaura Benegiamo, Associate Researcher, University of Pisa, mbnegiamo@unipi.it Laura Centemeri, Chargée de recherche CNRS, Centre d’Etude des Mouvements Sociaux (EHESS, Paris), laura.centemeri@ehess.fr Short BioMaura Benegiamo is researcher associate at the Department of Political Science, University of Pisa. She has conducted research on environmental conflicts, extractivism, agrarian development and land grabbing combining ethnographic and political ecology…
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ConvenorsFederica Manfredi, federicamanfredi@hotmail.frInstitute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon Biography: Federica Manfredi is PhD candidate in Medical anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon. She is exploring body suspensions and other meanings associated to non-therapeutic and long-term body interventions through experimental qualitative methods, including online ethnography and the manipulation of…
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Walking ethnographies represent a transdisciplinary area of interest and methodological experimentation, located at the crossroads between phenomenological and post-phenomenological, feminist and critical approaches to ethnographic research. Nurtured by the recent ‘mobile’ and ‘performative’ but also ‘creative’ and ‘narrative’ turns, walking ethnographies have become widespread methodologies, extending well beyond the large but limited area of the…