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The Ethnography Commons is a collaborative project based at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington that aims to rethink the boundaries of ethnographic research, practice, and pedagogy. The commons is both a space for thinking about methodological practice, and a site for developing an ethos to guide that practice.

Our members are drawn from across academic disciplines and from all levels of scholarship, from students to senior professors. Working together we discuss research design, debate ethical practice, experiment with ethnographic poetics, and explore other issues in contemporary ethnography.

Our goal is to explore the boundaries of the common world, and also to remake them.

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Commoning Ethnography is on a publication break.

Commoning Ethnography is on a publication break. We will not publish an issue in 2024. Submissions will reopen in 2025.

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Commoning Ethnography: Open Call for Papers
Commoning Ethnography: Open Call for Papers

Commoning Ethnography is pleased to open submissions for Volume 6. We welcome submissions that explore the boundaries of ethnographic knowledge, experiment with forms of ethnographic writing, disturb the authority of single authorship, consider how property norms shape ethnographic research, and rethink communities of ethnographic research in a variety of yet unanticipated ways. The deadline for open submissions is April 1, 2024.

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Commoning Ethnography Volume 5 is now available

Commoning Ethnography is back! Volume 5, Number 1 is now available and all articles are open-access.

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Commoning Ethnography: Call for Papers

We are pleased to call for papers for Issue 5 of our journal Commoning Ethnography, to be published December 2022. The deadline for open submissions is 1 July 2022.

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Call for Contributions
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Our Pandemic Lives
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Commoning Ethnography Volume 2 is now Available!
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Trial by Fire: Trauma, Vulnerability and Fieldwork
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Commoning Ethnography

We are delighted to announce the first issue of Commoning Ethnography, an online and open access journal that is part of the Ethnography Commons. Issue 1 contains papers exploring indigeneity and ocean commons, poetry and ethnography, activism and research, feminist commons, sonic ethnography, pedagogical experiments, the relationship between Māori scholarship and anthropology, and more.

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Commoning Ethnography Call for Papers, Special Section: The Labours of Collaboration

In addition to the open Call for Papers for Issue 2 of Commoning Ethnography, we are also calling for papers for a Special Section on The Labours of Collaboration. The deadline for submissions to the special section is March 1, 2019.

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