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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain25
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures17
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity13
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding13
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right12
Parts of Me—Relational Risks and Possible Outcomes When Sharing the Decision to Have a Breast Augmentation: A Study of a Swedish Online Forum11
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy11
Problematising Aspirations, Transformations, and Societal Expectations: Revisioning Academic Success and Wellbeing Through Cross-Cultural Autoethnographic Exploration10
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working9
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma9
Street Art Commodification and (An)aesthetic Policies on the Outskirts of Lisbon8
Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist8
Performing Conservative Politics7
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia7
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene7
Counteracting Stigma-Power: An Ethnographic Case Study of an Independent Community Food Hub6
The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias6
The Making of Everyday Space of Publicness: Insights from a Mall in Beijing6
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers6
“A Program, Not the Projects”: Reentry in the Post-Public Housing Era5
Strategic Boredom: The Experience and Dynamics of Boredom in Refugee Camp. A Mediterranean Case5
“Like Stitches to a Wound”: Fashioning Taste in and Through Garment Mending Practices5
Disclosing Otherness: Situated Knowledges and the Politics of Ethnographic Approaches to the #WeAreNotWaiting Movement in Type 1 Diabetes and Beyond5
A Confessional Representation of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an Academy Sport Setting4
One Step Ahead of the Canadian Immigration System: Bureaucratic Chaos and the Development of Migrant Experts Online4
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry4
Considering Silences in Narrative Inquiry: An Intergenerational Story of a Sami Family4
Gender and Legitimacy in Personal Service Occupations: The Case of End-of-Life Doulas and Death Midwives4
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations4
Ethnography, Tactical Responsivity and Political Utility4
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes4
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform3
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City3
Ghosted: Challenges to Conducting Qualitative Research in the Digital Era3
(De)constructing Refugee Vulnerability: Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Ethnographic Research With Refugee Communities3
Boundary Work and Strategies of Compliance: The Underlife of the Ivory Tower3
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification3
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties3
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions2
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel2
“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
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community2
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer2
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity2
Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown2
Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies2
Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Infrastructure2
#LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends2
Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots2
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia2
Pets and Pests? Framing Human–Cat Moral Ecologies in the Canary Islands, Spain2
Purge the Evil From Your Midst: Material Cancel Culture Among Religiously Observant Jews1
Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia1
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing1
“You Kind of Find Yourself Helpless”: Teens’ Identity Constructions and Responses to Childhood Trauma1
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility1
Constructing Selves in (Im)mobility: Greek Women’s Narratives Concerning the COVID-19 Lockdowns in Athens, Greece1
Climate Activism and the Destabilization of Business-as-Usual in Milan, Italy1
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair1
Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Infrastructure1
Researching While Trans: Being Clocked and Cooling Cistress1
“When I Least Expected It”: an Autoethnography of Reporting Workplace Sexual Harassment and Compassionate Bystanders”1
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study1
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel1
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services1
Backstage at the Barristers’ Case Conference: A Dramaturgical Analysis1
Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar1
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO1
Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines1
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”1
From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness1
Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography of the Undersea?1
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