Journal Article | Jan 2024

Forum: Critical ethnography

Eva Johais, Julia Leser, Katarina Kusic, Kristin Anabel Eggeling, André Weißenfels, Andreas Streinzer, Ryan Davey, Johanna Kocks, Felix Anderl, Lena Merkle, Anna Leander (2024)
in Public Anthropologist vol. 6 no. 1 pp. 125-199

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https://doi.org/10.1163/25891715-06010003

Ethnography is a political practice with an ambivalent relationship to power. On the one hand, it has benefitted from, legitimized and stabilized hegemonic power relations. On the other hand, it can challenge the self-evidence of the status quo, give room for multiple experiences and worldviews, and place itself in the service of emancipation and social transformation. The forum does not define what critical ethnography is but brings together a range of theoretical perspectives and modalities by which ethnography unfolds critical potential.

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Eva Johais

Post Doctoral Researcher

Julia Leser

Humboldt-University Berlin

Katarina Kusic

Kristin Anabel Eggeling

André Weißenfels

Andreas Streinzer

Ryan Davey

Johanna Kocks

Felix Anderl

Lena Merkle

Anna Leander

Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

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