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Shaken but not scared
David Canter describes being marooned in Narita Airport when the earthquake struck. Having studied people’s actions in major emergencies as varied as the evacuation from the twin towers on 9/11 and the...
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How far should we go?
This summer, I have been reading one of the most impressive ethnographies that I have seen for a long time: Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk and Intimacy by Staci Newmahr. (I should declare an...
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Rom Harré on What is Social Science?
LISTEN TO ROM HARRE NOW! How do the social sciences resemble and differ from history and the physical sciences? Can the social sciences be impersonal? Polymath Rom Harré discusses these questions with...
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The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers
In a previous blog, I promised further comment on Steven Lubet’s ethical critique of Alice Goffman’s fieldwork in her 2014 book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Lubet takes particular...
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