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Palestine, encampments, and campus futures
Since the advent of the war on Gaza in October 2023, university students in the US and beyond have organized a protest movement of campus-wide sit-ins, occupations, and encampments decrying the Israeli military’s actions in Palestine, as well as institutional complicity. As an online space devoted to North American ethnography, Home/Field invited individuals involved in or witness to the protests to submit short-form works – e.g. essays, fieldnotes, interviews, poems, or multimodal pieces – reflecting emergent themes from the university campus.
Communities in Crisis
The authors of this special series considered crisis as a category in their own research. The result is a series of rich and provocative text and photo essays that engage the affective and temporal dimensions of crisis and address urgent topics such as the politics of care and hunger, far right education politics, environmental degradation and military bases, the role of mutual aid as a response to austerity politics, environmental racism, climate crisis technology development, and the moral panic over trans healthcare.
Engagements
North American ethnography is filled with opportunities for meaningful dialogues and reflections spurred by engagement with our co-locutors and colleagues, theoretical debates, and methodological innovations. These pieces explore how we collaborate within and beyond our field sites and how such interlocutions articulate what is critical to North American ethnography.
Author Dialogues
Some of the most clarifying scholarly moments come in casual conversation, where the serious work of hanging out and hashing things out can happen. This feature gives authors and their readers a chance to hang out textually. Rather than an author-meets-critic session, this is a place for an engaged and informed reader to ask all of the follow-up questions that every great book or article leaves us with.
Audio/ Visual Essays
This is a space for experimentation with multimedia and multimodal research. We welcome submissions that decenter text, or that go beyond the written word altogether. This could include photo essays, short documentary, video journals, musical scores, soundscapes, field recordings, collaborative art, and digital collaborations.