Search results for "etnografia"
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Inclusive ethnographies
2017
Abstract In ethnographically oriented linguistic landscape studies, social spaces are studied in co-operation with research participants, many times through mobile encounters such as walking. Talking, walking, photographing and video recording as well as writing the fieldwork diary are activities that result in the accumulation of heterogeneous, multimodal corpora. We analyze data from a Hungarian school ethnography project to reconstruct fieldwork encounters and analyze embodiment, the handling of devices (e.g. the photo camera) and verbal interaction in exploratory, participant-led walking tours. Our analysis shows that situated practices of embodied conduct and verbal interaction blur th…
Investing in indigenous multilingualism in the Arctic
2018
Abstract This article explores the dynamics between language and identity categories and the boundaries produced in a changing multilingual, indigenous context in the Arctic region of Finland. In this moment of transition, indigenous multilingualism has high stakes. It can be a resource for political and economic development but also for management and regimentation, open to winners and losers. Drawing on a longitudinal critical discourse ethnography of producing language and identity categories in the Finnish Arctic, I discuss three circulating discourses relevant for the ways in which indigenous identity boundaries are made to matter, namely strategic, aspirational and affective multiling…
Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey : designing knowledge about work
2021
This article examines speculative design's capacity to co‐produce knowledge about contradictions and potentialities of work in professional ice hockey. Building on the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, speculative design has been used for two purposes: (a) to bring together the perspectives of art, anthropology, discourse studies, and professional sports in co‐constructing knowledge about hockey work; and (b) to analyze and present the key findings of an ethnography on hockey work through an art exhibition of speculative hockey memorabilia. As such, these art pieces showed the intertwined relationships of material, discursive, and affective aspects in hockey work as well as the multiplicity …
Language, (em)power(ment) and affective capitalism : the case of an entrepreneurship workshop for refugees in Germany
2022
Abstract This paper seeks to advance research on the nexus of language, work-related training and affective capitalism by focusing on an entrepreneurship workshop organized for newly arrived refugees in Germany. Despite the occupational orientation, the primary objective of the workshop was not establishing a business but “empowering” the participants by guiding them to adopt “an entrepreneurial mindset”. To delve deeper into this ‘will to empower’, the study brings together the perspectives of governmentality studies, ethnography, discourse studies and affect studies. To investigate in more detail the evocation of the ‘entrepreneurial mindset’, the study draws on ethnographic data collecte…
Sicilian Ways and Days. La Sicilia “senza veli” di Louise Hamilton
2017
Sicilian ways and days di Louise Hamilton, pubblicato a Londra nel 1910, è una testimonianza etnografica sulla Sicilia rurale della fine dell’Ottocento e del primo Novecento, ripubblicato nel 1983 con titolo Vicende e costumi siciliani. Diversamente da altre opere realizzate dai viaggiatori stranieri che soggiornarono per un breve periodo nell’Isola inserita in quel percorso europeo quasi obbligato per la formazione di brillanti esponenti delle ricche famiglie europee, Louise Hamilton viveva in Sicilia avendo sposato Eugenio Caico, proprietario terriero originario di Montedoro. L’opera, iniziata intorno al 1897, è ambientata proprio a Montedoro, piccolo paese nisseno, isolato immerso in una…
Multiple Forms of Professional Agency for (non)crafting of Work Practices in a Hospital Organization
2015
In recent working life studies, professional agency is seen as pivotal to the development of work communities and work organizations. This paper addresses professional agency during a practicebased intervention (work conference) in a Finnish hospital setting. To develop work practices, the intervention sought to create a dialogical space for the promotion of collective professional agency. Here, we present an investigation of the manifestations of professional agency and how they emerged within and between professional groups. We also elaborate how professional positions frame the emergence of different manifestations of professional agency. The audio and video materials from the interventi…
Un'autoetnografia per immagini
2020
Lo studio propone una riflessione geografica sulla fotografia (sui suoi usi e sui suoi sviluppi) in relazione a varie forme di spazialità. Attraverso l'analisi di alcune immagini sul Social Network Instagram viene presentata un'etnografia di tipo riflessivo utile a definire e discutere alcuni aspetti espistemologici della disciplina geografica, quali la metodologia da utilizzare, il posizionamento del ricercatore sul campo e i suoi oggetti di conoscenza e d'indagine scientifica. The study proposes a geographical reflection on photography (on its uses and its developments) in relation to various forms of spatiality. Through the analysis of some images on the Instagram Social Network, a refle…
Kotimaisen 2010-luvun lavarunouden kentillä ja laidoilla : havainnointeja lavarunouden teoriasta, arvoista ja keinoista
2014
Kotimainen lavarunous elää 2010-luvulla vahvimmin Poetry slam -kilpailuissa, Helsinki Poetry Connection -runoryhmittymän toiminnassa ja tapahtumissa sekä runoiltojen open mic -osuuksissa. Lavarunous on omien runojen esittämistä esiintymiskonteksti huomioon ottaen ja siihen panostaen, mikä erottaa lavarunouden oleellisesti runonlausunnasta ja -luennasta. Lavarunoudella on erittäin vahvat yhteydet musiikkiin, stand-up–komiikkaan ja rap-lyriikkaan. Tässä kirjallisuuden pro gradu -työssä tarkastelen suomalaisen tämänhetkisen lavarunouden historiaa, estetiikkaa ja poetiikkaa. Pyrin määrittelemään lavarunouden käsitettä Julia Novakin ja Susan B. A. Somers-Willettin teorioihin ja määritelmiin peil…
Pokeri-ilta : etnografinen tutkimus rahapelaamisen yhteisöllisyydestä
2017
Tutkielmani tavoitteena on tutkia mitä merkityksiä opiskelijoiden pokeriyhteisö antaa yhteisölle ja pokeripelille: miksi he pelaavat pokeria ja minkä takia he viettävät aikaa yhteisössä? Peliyhteisön tutkimuksen pohjana käytän sosiologi Michel Maffesolin käsitettä uusheimolaisuus, johon sovellan ja vertaan tutkimaani yhteisöä. Lisäksi käyn läpi yhteisön jäsenten suhtautumista rahapelaamiseen ja erityisesti Texas Hold’em pokerivariaatioon, jota he yhteisössä pelasivat. Tutkimusmetodeina käytän teemahaastattelua sekä passiivista havainnointia ja osallistuvaa havainnointia. Tutkielmaani varten haastattelin viittä yhteisön jäsentä. Passiivista havainnointia yhteisössä toteutin kuukauden ajan ja…
Folk and Popular as "National": The Invention of the Italian Unity through Poetry and Music
2013
La nascita delle moderne filologia, musicologia ed etnologia nel XIX sec. ha contribuito ad approfondire anche in Italia lo studio scientifico della poesia e della musica non cólte. I termini popolare e nazionale, tuttavia, erano passibili all’epoca delle interpretazioni più varie, in virtù del diverso approccio delle tre discipline alla materia. Gli storici della letteratura si occupavano infatti di poesia con scarsa sensibilità per la musica, i musicologi di musica antica senza alcuna preparazione letteraria, gli etnologi indagavano i fenomeni nel loro accadere e solo in qualche caso formulavano ipotesi sulla storicità delle tradizioni. La prima generazione di studiosi delle tre branche p…