Into the Fire: A Digital Museum Anthropology?
In May 2022 artists, curators, and scholars convened in Senegal’s capital city, Dakar for Dak’Art, the Biennial of Contemporary African Art. Postponed in 2020 due to COVID, its then theme, I Ndaffa, or Into the Fire, was more relevant than ever. It reflected the conditions and constraints of living through an age marked by pandemic. […]
Definición de una ética del cuidado en el trabajo de campo: Reflexiones sobre el giro digital
Tengo una confesión que hacer. Había estado evitando escribir esta publicación por un largo tiempo, porque secretamente, me preocupa que lo que tengo que decir sobre el trabajo de campo digital sea desalentador, inútil o parezca.Pero como etnógrafo político comprometido con la transparencia y la apertura reflexiva, sé que tenemos que hablar de posicionalidad y […]
Defining an Ethics of Care in Fieldwork: Reflections on the Digital Turn
I have a confession to make. I have been avoiding writing this post for a long time, because secretly, I worry that what I have to say about digital fieldwork will be discouraging, unhelpful, or come off as snobbish. But as a political ethnographer committed to transparency and reflective openness, I know we have to […]
Choosing To Not Conduct Digital Fieldwork on Sensitive Topics
March 2020 was an exciting time for my dissertation research. After two months in Bogotá, Colombia, I made my first trip to my field site of Orillas, Antioquia…
Digital Fieldwork in Africa in a Pandemic
Covid-19 hit just as I was about to embark on a summer of fieldwork in 2020 in Uganda and Botswana, followed by research over winter break and the following summer (i.e., 2021) in Mauritania and Namibia.
Television: Let’s Talk About It
Our current project, Jewish Learning in Cultural Arts contexts, questions the prevailing assumption that meaningful Jewish learning needs to occur in formal, outcome-driven contexts.
Digital Fieldwork, and the Case for Studying Misinformation as Information
In the midst of the February 2021 winter storm that gripped much of the continental United States, a picture circulated widely on social media.