Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Performing Conservative Politics24
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain15
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy9
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment8
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures8
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor7
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity6
Everyday Multispecies Resistance: Power Relations in an Equestrian Sport6
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO5
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions5
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services5
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study5
Fruitful Unpredictabilities of the Field: Procedural Serendipity in a Multi-Sited Ethnography5
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair4
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”4
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility4
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel4
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death3
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide3
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration3
Because the World Did Not End When I Was Seventeen: From Death Anxiety to Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Self-Transcendence During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene3
An Autoethnography beyond Academia: The Embodiment of Motorcycle Maintenance3
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago3
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma2
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas2
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach2
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer2
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers2
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification2
Caught in Construction: Why Dutch Sovereign Citizens Challenge the Bureaucratic State2
“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage2
Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education2
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right2
“We Have Two Engines, and We Must Keep Them Both Running”: The Combination of Institutional and Symbolic Resources in the “Socio-Emotional Organizing” of Solo Self-Employed Workers2
The Show Must Go On! An Autoethnography of (Re)socialization into Senior Policing in England and the Prominence of “Leadership Theatre”2
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice2
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers2
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing2
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working2
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding2
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia2
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties1
Boundary Work and Strategies of Compliance: The Underlife of the Ivory Tower1
Global Religious Projects with Local Reach: Glocal kavadi and Hinduism in La Réunion1
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations1
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition1
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity1
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia1
Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia1
Balancing Acts and Ways of Knowing: Environmental Anthropology as a Collaborative Companion in the Anthropocene1
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs1
The Digitalization of Ethnography: A Scoping Review of Methods in Netnography1
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel1
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community1
“Sticky, Yet Precarious”—An Ethnographic Insight of F&B Workers in Singapore1
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility1
Killed For Good: Hunters, Biologists, and the Ethical Paradoxes of Wildlife Management in North America1
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes1
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City1
Counteracting Stigma-Power: An Ethnographic Case Study of an Independent Community Food Hub1
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform1
“Why Won’t You Let Me Hit On You?”: Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork as Data1
Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist1
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland1
Interviewing Salafis in Tunisia: Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Fieldwork with Oppositional Communities1
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