Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: embodiment

Bring Back the Bodies

Bring Back the Bodies

I want to start with a question. Please be honest in your response. Have you ever had the feeling that the ethnographic interview you just conducted is more interview than ethnography? If your answer was a ‘yes, maybe or sometimes’, isn’t it time to explore why this is the case? A key trope of...

Bodywork and Productivity in Workplace Ethnography

Bodywork and Productivity in Workplace Ethnography

Office workers still rely on their bodies to communicate with each other, despite many decades of technology use. This Pecha Kucha explores how and in what ways office work involves people’s bodies and this “bodywork” plays in productivity. I argue that technology is now able to emulate some...