Dear colleagues, students, and aficionados of ethnography,
The Ethnographic Café is meeting again this Friday October 18, 2024 at our usual time, 12pm PT.
Editor Javier Auyero and co-authors Eldad Levy, Katherine Sobering, Alexander Diamond, Katherine Jensen, and Maricarmen Hernandez will present their book Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America in conversation with Cecilia Menjívar.
Portraits of Persistence is the result of the collective work of the UT-Austin Ethnography Lab. Through twelve intimate and granular life portraits set in their structural context, contributors explore issues reverberating throughout Latin America, such as precarious work, gender oppression, housing displacement, state violence, environmental devastation, and access to health care.
We will ask: how do you insert a life into the social structure, capture ordinary meanings, reconstruct social trajectories? What are the perils and profits of team ethnography and how do you write it up collectively?
You can read excerpts of Portraits of Persistence here.
Zoom:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99939108952?pwd=VTE1RXhDemVzbXkyVzdtbGVCVlM3UT09
Meeting ID: 999 3910 8952
Passcode: 1234
Best
Loïc Wacquant, Ashley Mears, and Ékédi Mpondo-Dika
PS: Please save the date for our last event of the semester on November 8th! Michel Anteby will present his book The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field in conversation with Brooke Harrington.
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Mark de Rond
Professor
Cambridge University
Cambridge
+44 7597 367867
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