on extensive fieldwork, in our final regular article Andrea Moreiras explores how a group of young men construct their sense of belonging to a public space, namely, a market in the capital city of Mozambique, Maputo. The article shows how these young
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Making It Up
Intergenerational Activism and the Ethics of Empowering Girls
Emily Bent
rapport and shared understanding in fieldwork blurring the boundaries between adults and girls, researcher and researched. To date, I have interviewed over sixty girl-activists to the UN as part of a larger project on North American girls’ political
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Male Migrants’ Attitudes to Homosexuality and What Age Has To Do with It
Katarzyna Wojnicka
both insider and outsider positions. In Study 1, fieldwork was conducted by a number of researchers with Polish backgrounds (both female and male) in the Polish language, excluding myself. In this case, the researchers had an insider status, which had
Indigenous Girls in Rural Mexico
A Success Story?
Mercedes González de la Rocha and Agustín Escobar Latapí
girls’ well-being has improved. In 2008, we conducted ethnographic fieldwork in 12 rural communities with households that had been enrolled in the program since 1997 in order to gain knowledge about the lives of long-term beneficiaries as part of an
Reading Raewyn
Reflections on a Lifelong Inspiration
Sara Delamont
been heavily focused only on educating boys ( Acker 1981 ). There was, and is, so little good sociology of elite schooling that finding research on fee-paying schools in Australia was inspirational. I had done my own PhD fieldwork in an elite girls
Solveig Roth and Dagny Stuedahl
. We carried out our fieldwork in a multi-ethnic suburb of about 100,000 inhabitants in a town of 600,000 people that was populated originally by Norwegian working-class families. However, since the 1970s, many immigrant groups have settled there; in
Young Delinquency as a Social Product in an Age of Correction
The Chicago School’s Struggle to Humanize Transgression
Shane Blackman
were really engaging in the development of experimental social research methods, actively trying to resolve fieldwork issues. In this sense, David Matza (1969) was accurate when he identified that the work of the Chicago School is built around
Creating Dialogue on Inclusion in Vietnam
Girls with Disabilities Exhibit their Work
Naydene de Lange, Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, and Nghiem Thi Thu Trang
through to a printed 70-page colour exhibition catalogue, as well as a professionally created video. Through Exhibition Dialogue One: Exhibition in Hoang Cau in Cau Giay, Hanoi Immediately after the fieldwork with the girls had been completed, the
Raewyn Connell
how popular political consciousness was formed. In the main fieldwork, I interviewed 119 Australian children, aged from 5 to 16, about their understanding of the political world. This was mostly inspired by Piaget, as my title The Child's Construction
Cinthia Torres Toledo and Marília Pinto de Carvalho
the Fieldwork Bearing in mind the objectives mentioned above, we conducted ethnographic research at an urban state school in São Paulo. The City of São Paulo produces a significant part of the national wealth and is home to an upper-middle class and