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April 21st, 2021
Researcher's Positionality

Grappling with ethnoreligious politics and positionalities in Vietnam

May 12th, 2021
Ethnography

Walking with Bangkok’s waste pickers

May 4th, 2021
Participatory methods

We were here: participatory methods and their afterlives at Elephant and Castle

April 21st, 2021

Researcher's Positionality

Researcher's Positionality

Grappling with ethnoreligious politics and positionalities in Vietnam

May 12th, 2021
Researcher's Positionality

Fieldwork in China’ urban village: Producing grounded knowledge while immersed in the transient researcher-researched relationship

March 15th, 2021
Ethnography

‘Do you drive a two-wheeler?’ Of risk and relatability while doing ethnographic fieldwork in Chennai

March 3rd, 2021

Local epistemology

Ethnography

Encountering the electricity shortage: Research Methods driven by infrastructure disruption

April 12th, 2021
Gaining Access

In search of meaningful data

November 13th, 2019
Local epistemology

Between ‘Wizards of Oz’, Madagascari Lemur and Megalomaniac Presidents: The Amusements of Research in Post-Socialist Spaces

February 27th, 2015

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Gaining Access

Gaining Access

Researching one’s own community during the COVID19 pandemic: Advantages and challenges of doing remote fieldwork in India

March 23rd, 2021
Ethnography

Travels to the DMZ: Conducting Fieldwork in the Inter-Korean Border

October 28th, 2020
Ethnography

In-betweenness: Doing research back home

September 17th, 2020

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Ethnography

Ethnography

Walking with Bangkok’s waste pickers

May 4th, 2021
Ethnography

Encountering the electricity shortage: Research Methods driven by infrastructure disruption

April 12th, 2021
Ethnography

‘Do you drive a two-wheeler?’ Of risk and relatability while doing ethnographic fieldwork in Chennai

March 3rd, 2021

Boundary Crossing

Boundary Crossing

Field realities in the global South: Acknowledging emotion and the importance of reflexivity

January 6th, 2021
Boundary Crossing

Field realities in the global South: Encounters with poverty and caste

December 17th, 2020

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Boundary Crossing

“What is this research thing you do?” Reflections on the (blurred) lines between research and social activism

November 26th, 2020
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