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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain47
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy14
Cineforum as a Participatory Field Device: Film-Viewing for Sensitive Knowledge in Ethnography9
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures7
Performing Conservative Politics6
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment6
Quelling Emotion: Emotion Work to Resist the Anti-TQLGB+ Emotion Culture of Fear in Florida6
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor5
Everyday Multispecies Resistance: Power Relations in an Equestrian Sport5
Fruitful Unpredictabilities of the Field: Procedural Serendipity in a Multi-Sited Ethnography4
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility4
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study4
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO4
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions4
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel4
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”3
An Autoethnography beyond Academia: The Embodiment of Motorcycle Maintenance3
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration3
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene3
Livelihoods, Social Protectionism, and Thailand’s Precarious Labor Markets3
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
Introduction to the Special Issue “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”3
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide3
Accounting for Socialization: Quantitative Priming, Language, and Tools in a Masters of Public Affairs Program3
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death3
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers3
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia2
“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
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers2
Workarounds to Mandated Data Practices: Rethinking Digital Infrastructure in Child Welfare and Homeless-Serving Organizations2
Domicide and Homemaking in Times of War: Ukrainian Female Labor Migrants in Israel2
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing2
Caught in Construction: Why Dutch Sovereign Citizens Challenge the Bureaucratic State2
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma2
Forge and Flex: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Resilience Among Indonesian PhD Mama Scholars2
“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage2
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs2
Counteracting Stigma-Power: An Ethnographic Case Study of an Independent Community Food Hub2
The Show Must Go On! An Autoethnography of (Re)socialization into Senior Policing in England and the Prominence of “Leadership Theatre”2
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification2
Environment-as-Infrastructure? Emerging Conflicts Over Roads and Environmental Conservation in the Chilean North Patagonian Frontier2
The Gaze and the Gesture: Hypervisible Insiderness and the Politics of Recognition in Somali Ethnography2
Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education2
Global Religious Projects with Local Reach: Glocal kavadi and Hinduism in La Réunion2
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas2
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer2
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel1
The Digitalization of Ethnography: A Scoping Review of Methods in Netnography1
Interviewing Salafis in Tunisia: Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Fieldwork with Oppositional Communities1
Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia1
Killed For Good: Hunters, Biologists, and the Ethical Paradoxes of Wildlife Management in North America1
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity1
One Step Ahead of the Canadian Immigration System: Bureaucratic Chaos and the Development of Migrant Experts Online1
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community1
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform1
Balancing Acts and Ways of Knowing: Environmental Anthropology as a Collaborative Companion in the Anthropocene1
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties1
Intersecting Journeys: A Duoethnography Of Imposter Phenomenon Among Women In Higher Education And The Workplace1
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia1
The Making of Everyday Space of Publicness: Insights from a Mall in Beijing1
Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown1
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition1
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations1
Boundary Work and Strategies of Compliance: The Underlife of the Ivory Tower1
“Why Won’t You Let Me Hit On You?”: Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork as Data1
“Sticky, Yet Precarious”—An Ethnographic Insight of F&B Workers in Singapore1
Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist1
Beyond the Algorithm: Riders as Geographical Actors in the City1
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland1
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