RECEPTION The University of Toronto Ethnography Lab, based in the Department of Anthropology, will be hosting an end-of-the-year reception to showcase the recent results of the Kensington Market Research Project. As part of the “ANTH447H1 Ethnographic Practicum: Metropolis” course directed by Dr. Joshua Barker, Associate Professor of Anthropology, eleven undergraduate students and four graduate students … Continue reading
The Digital Ethnography Group is pleased to welcome Dr. Barry Wellman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and co-author of the book “Networked: The New Social Operating System,” to the Ethnography lab on Friday, April 10th at 5pm for a discussion about some of the changes brought about in tandem with the proliferation … Continue reading
Collaborative ethnography, as defined by Luke Eric Lassiter, is “a very specific kind of ethnography that builds on the cooperative relationships already present in the ethnographic research process… and endeavors to engender texts that are more readable, relevant, and applicable to local communities of ethnographic collaborators (i.e. local publics).” Over the last 10 years, collaborative … Continue reading
The Ethnography in Canada hub is envisaged as a forum to bring together university and community-based researchers conducting ethnographic research in Canada. Our aims are three-fold. First, we aim to create a peer-support environment and network. This includes a space to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and questions that arise as we navigate our work as … Continue reading
Ethnography is not the first thing that comes to mind when you hear about urban infrastructures. Infrastructure is more often considered the domain of planners, civil engineers and policy-makers. However, the Sheri Lynn Gibbings’ SSHRC funded project Urban Infrastructures and Informal Sovereignties: Understanding 20th Century Politics uses ethnography as the central methodological approach to uncover … Continue reading
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