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Mobile Methods and the Empirical

Monika Büscher, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2009 - 
- Vol. 12, Iss: 1, pp 99-116
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In this article, the authors argue that the mobilities turn and its studies of the performativity of everyday (im)mobilities enable new forms of sociological inquiry, explanation and engagement.
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In this article we argue that the mobilities turn and its studies of the performativity of everyday (im)mobilities enable new forms of sociological inquiry, explanation and engagement. New kinds of...

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Beyond the Throwaway Society: Ordinary Domestic Practice and a Sociological Approach to Household Food Waste

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Crowdfunding Social Ventures: A Model and Research Agenda

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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

TL;DR: In this article, Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students, in addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction.
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Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography

TL;DR: In this paper, an emergent methodological trend in anthropological research that concerns the adaptation of long-standing modes of ethnographic practices to more complex objects of study is surveyed, in terms of testing the limits of ethnography, attenuating the power of fieldwork, and losing the perspective of the subaltern.