By Johana Pokorney Thursday, January 29th, 2026, 5:00 – 6:00pm Room 330 – Ethnography Lab Boardroom 19 Ursula Franklin Street This session examines how skills and sensibilities honed through ethnographic research can be translated into qualitative research consulting projects and settings–and sometimes where they fail. Given that today many other professionals draw on similar methods, …
Please join us at the Ethnography Lab on Friday, December 5th, 5-6 pm, for a presentation of a work in progress by Eugene Slonimerov. 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario. Room 330 or online. The ongoing research project takes the site of the former Russian military installation in Tbilisi, Georgia as a non-human subject, a …
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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
As more and more of the world gains access to the internet, cell phones, and accompanying technologies, ethnographers’ field sites often multiply and become at least partially digital. Traditional ethnographic field methods for physical locations remain crucial to training junior anthropologists, but methodologies that do not keep pace with ever-shifting loci of communication and cultural … Continue reading
Dr. Joshua Barker, DirectorAssociate Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto Jean Chia, MemberAnthropology PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Emily Hertzman, MemberAnthropology PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Jacob Nerenberg, MemberAnthropology PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Tammara Soma, MemberUrban Planning and Environmental Studies PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Jessika Tramblay, MemberAnthropology PhD Candidate, University of … Continue reading
Anthropology is just one of many disciplines that uses ethnography – or the systematic and in-depth description of various social or cultural phenomena – to enrich our understanding of the strange and familiar goings-on around us. “This is Anthropology” is a detailed slideshow put together by the students at the University of South Florida a … Continue reading
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