Vol. 83: Interventions with/in Ethnography

Interventions are an essential part of doing ethnographic fieldwork. In this issue, we focus on interventions with, in and within ethnographic research and as methodological device. The contributions in this volume of Kulturanthropologie Notizen unveil insights of doing interventions in various fields, such as the global food industry, extractive mining, in mental health care and discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our own research practices. In addition, cultural anthropology is discussed as a science in/of transformation, in need of new concepts to address the fundamental societal changes associated with large-scale digital information systems and the rise of global data economies. The authors reflect on various experiments and collaborations during research and reflect their epistemic effects. This issue demonstrates how the taken-for-granted can be challenged, how interventions have the potential to transform dominant forms of knowledge production, and how they allow for re-thinking and re-practicing ethnographic research. In this vein, the issues invites readers to understand interventions with/in ethnography as generating effects within our fields of research, while the practice of intervening simultaneously has the potential to change ethnographic knowledge production.

Eitel, Kathrin, Laura Otto, Martina Klausner, Gisela Welz (eds.), Interventions with/in Ethnography. Experiments, Collaborations, Epistemic Effects. Kulturanthropologie Notizen 83.