Abstract This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region their workplaces and beyond. By taking a self-ethnographic perspective, six contributors from five countries provide an engaging overview of difficulties they face everyday lives. Against backdrop this diverse globalizing region, are all academic...

Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji Rita Anne McNamara, Ara Norenzayan & Joseph Henrich To cite this article: Rita Anne McNamara, Ara Norenzayan & Joseph Henrich (2016) Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 6:1, 34-5...

To automatically annotate songs with descriptive keywords, a variety of content-based auto-tagging strategies have been proposed in recent years. Different approaches may capture different aspects of a song’s musical content, such as timbre, temporal dynamics, rhythmic qualities, etc. As a result, some auto-taggers may be better suited to model the acoustic characteristics commonly associated w...

The central concern of this article is the relationship between ethnography and social theory. With the help of ‘consequent processualism’, a social ontology that centers on the co-constitution of people, cultural forms, social relations, and the built environment, this essay makes an argument for what should be at the core of social theorizing: the principles underpinning the dynamics of proce...

This article considers the ethical guidelines concerning autonomy, negotiated consent and transparency in relation to an ethnography of psychiatry. It suggests that the complexities and unequal power distribution of the psychiatric consultation make these guidelines difficult to apply. Rather an attempt is made to develop an ethics of patient acknowledgement even where this presents ethical mis...

Studying atrocities poses many challenges for ethnographers, not least of which is how to represent violent experiences, often exceed articulation. The perpetrated during the military dictatorship in Argentina are no exception. Yet, my fieldwork Buenos Aires, I found that violence forcefully surfaced ethnographic encounters, as a result having accidentally absorbed interlocutors’ psychoanalytic...

This open access book describes and elaborates methods for research on through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method design because it constantly orients itself – such as all projects toward social realities.