Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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If These Walls Could Talk: The Mental Life of the Built Environment

If These Walls Could Talk: The Mental Life of the Built Environment

Renewing Henri Lefebvre’s unfinished and overlooked science of ‘rhythmanalysis,’ I propose physical space becomes meaningful to us to the extent that it provides refuge from the ravages of time—specifically, the intersecting rhythms of everyday life. In other words, we develop affinity with space...

Ethnography, Ethics & Time

Ethnography, Ethics & Time

Ethnographers are not time travelers, but we may be close. Our frameworks and methodologies develop a nuanced understanding of how relationships, processes, and objects evolve over time. This 'temporal expertise' is key to enacting our ethical responsibility to the past and future, says...