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The authors, building on prior collaborative experiments, decided to engage in a practice of object exchange: for a given period of time, we gave up and gave over, problematic objects from field inquiry – a field inquiry about the political and affective economy and relations between Romanian pimps and sex workers, and a field inquiry into assisted suicide in Switzerland. We use the term "object" in John Dewey's sense of worked over subject matter from inquiry. Creating an environment in which objects from field inquiry could be handed over to, and held by, another person, afforded moments of both relief and disquiet in our collaborative space, as well as new analytic openings and new relationships to our objects and inquiries. In the text we describe what this practice of selecting and sending, holding, and receiving objects consisted in. The protocol that we engaged in is not a method, but rather a simple form (exchange) and a mode (holding) for a practice of thinking. The result of such exchange, we think, is clarification of the relation between objects and objectives in inquiry, for the inquirer.

Purpose: In reflecting on our experiences of bidding for, winning, completing and disseminating a government-funded report on the effects of menopause transition on women's economic participation, we consider the impact on our work and on us. These experiences took place in a variety of work contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Following the publication of the report, we undertook collective, autoethnographic memory work that forms the empirical body of our argument. This is presented in thirteen vignettes. Findings: From the earliest days of the menopause transition project, we found ourselves continually traversing the supposed public-private divide in our work contexts. Our experiences speak to broader social issues around gendered ageism in these contexts. Research implications: The paper analyses the challenges of researching what is a universal experience for women yet also a taboo subject. It discusses the relevant implications for and possible effects on researchers who investigate such topics in organisation and work studies and elsewhere. Originality/value: Menopause experiences as they connect to work are under-researched per se. Our paper extends knowledge of how this research area is not only shaped by researchers but has an impact on those researchers.

International audience ; Here, the Germanic peoples are considered as an historiographic object: these are peoples for which the practice of closely-related languages implies a common culture and past, allowing for a unified interpretation of their destiny. At the end of the first century AD, Tacite's Germanie was the first work to look at the different peoples that ancient ethnography classed as Germans. The rediscovery of this work in the 15th century sparked enthusiasm from humanists. Linguistics, defining a family of Germanic languages, then supported the Germanic people's claims to be the common ancestors of all peoples speaking this type of language, ultimately leading to equivalence, for 19th-century researchers like Jacob Grimm, between Germanic Antiquity and the German past. This is not a matter of identifying inconsistencies that imply a uniform and diachronic approach towards the history of the peoples of Germanic languages, but of showing the reformulation of the assumed common destiny of the Germans - an hypothesis based on recognition of their linguistic proximity in the early 9th century, and the role played by Hraban Maur in the establishment of this scholarly hypothesis. Previous works demonstrate that the linguistic question was neglected in order to draw together the origins and destiny of the different Barbarian peoples. For example, the Goths and the Lombards supposedly came from the same Nordic island of Scandia, whilst the Franks and the Bretons were related by their Trojan origins; at no time were the differences or the similarities between their different vernacular languages taken into account. On the contrary, in De inventione linguarum - a work whosethe link with the teaching of Hraban Maur is defended on the grounds of his students' works - a parallel is drawn diachronically between the destinies of different peoples because of their closely-related Germanic languages. Although this hypothesis is deeply revealing about the linguistic background of the different vernacular languages, it quickly became obsolete due to the political separation of the Empire, and is illustrative of the interpretation of Tacite's Germanie made by Rodolphe de Fulda - another Hraban Maur student - after the death of his master. Therefore, the hypothesis of a common destiny of the Germanic peoples is a scholarly construction derived from the proximity of the languages that, in the Renaissance period like in the Early Middle Ages, was only successful only when it came to support political claims. ; Les Germains sont ici considérés comme un objet historiographique : il s'agit de peuples pour lesquels la pratique de langues proches fait supposer une culture et un passé communs, permettant une interprétation unifiée de leur destin. A la fin du premier siècle de notre ère, la Germanie de Tacite fut le premier ouvrage à envisager de façon systématique les différents peuples considérés comme des Germains par l'ethnographie antique. La redécouverte de cette œuvre à partir du XVe siècle suscita l'enthousiaste des humanistes. La linguistique, définissant une famille de langues germaniques, appuya ensuite la revendication des Germains comme les ancêtres communs de l'ensemble des peuples parlant ce type de langues, jusqu'à aboutir à l'équivalence, pour les chercheurs du XIXe siècle comme Jacob Grimm, entre l'antiquité germanique et le passé allemand. Il ne s'agit pas ici de montrer les incohérences que suppose une approche uniforme et diachronique de l'histoire des peuples de langues germaniques, mais de faire apparaître la reformulation de l'hypothèse d'un destin commun des Germains, s'appuyant sur la reconnaissance de leur parenté linguistique dans la première moitié du IXe siècle, et le rôle que joua Hraban Maur dans l'élaboration de cette hypothèse érudite. Les ouvrages antérieurs montraient la négligence de la question linguistique pour rapprocher l'origine et le destin des différents peuples barbares. Goths et Lombards étaient par exemple supposés originaires de la même île nordique de Scandie, tandis que Francs et Bretons étaient apparentés par leurs origines troyennes, sans que soit jamais prises en compte les différences ou les proximités entre leurs différentes langues vernaculaires. Au contraire, dans le traité du De inventione linguarum, dont est ici défendu le lien avec l'enseignement de Hraban Maur en raison des ouvrages de ses élèves, le destin de différents peuples est rapproché, de façon diachronique, en raison de leurs langues germaniques proches. Bien qu'elle révèle une grande acuité aux fondements linguistiques des différentes langues vernaculaires, une telle hypothèse devint rapidement caduque, en raison de l'éclatement politique de l'Empire, ainsi que l'illustre l'interprétation de la Germanie de Tacite faite par Rodolphe de Fulda, un autre élève de Hraban Maur, après la disparition de son maître. L'hypothèse d'un destin commun des Germains est donc une construction érudite à partir de la proximité des langues qui, à la Renaissance comme au Haut Moyen Age, ne rencontra du succès que dès lors qu'elle venait supporter une revendication politique.

The pseudo-events -events that are created through and for the media- are one of the main opportunities to increase the visibility of micro-celebrities and to grow and maintain their audiences. This study aims to find what happens behind the scenes of pseudo-events that micro-celebrities organize. The primary purpose of this article is to study pseudo-events on social media accounts of Iranian female micro-celebrities on Instagram. Therefore, we aim to answer the following questions: What are pseudo-events on Instagram and what are their characteristics? How do Iranian female micro-celebrities create these pseudo-events? And What are the motivations behind creating these events and the way they are held? The methodology of this research is online ethnography and to answer the questions, we conducted unstructured interviews with 16 micro-celebrities and informants on micro-celebrities' personal lives. Then, raw data were analyzed using the content analysis method. Based on the analysis, the central theme was fake events whose characteristics are: 1. participants (present and absent), 2. time (event occurrence time, event receipt time), 3. location (in real space, on virtual space), 4. etiquettes and form of performance (type of gifts, music, food, and the well-staged nature of events). The findings also showed that in these events, the represented image is more important than the event itself. In fact, these events are designed and performed for filming and display.

Aim: In this study, it was aimed to handle the role of the media from a sociological point of view focusing on the management of the coronavirus pandemic and the crisis caused by this pandemic, with an effective health management. Material and Methods: In this study, the qualitative method has been adopted, and online ethnography and visual document analysis techniques have been used. For this purpose, visual and written materials, and mottos were examined in cyberspace and in conventional media. Results: Media has a significant role in managing health care effectively during the pandemic since it has the instruments to influence individuals and public. However, both conventional and new media ignores the social and economic disparities but underlines the personal dimension instead by creating an infodemic situation and using the pandemic as a source of info-tainment in their representations regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Conclusion: It is concluded that mass media has been a very frequently used tool for getting and sharing information since the very beginning of the pandemic. Therefore, it is clear that objective and correct information provided by the media is vital for an effective health care management during the pandemic. However, the manipulative facade of media is very vivid on especially the issues of ignoring inequalities, burdening the individual with the whole responsibility of his/her health behaviors, conveying conspiracy theories and leading to an infodemic. © 2021, Duzce University Medical School. All rights reserved.

International audience In this article, I observe an ensemble for « contemporary music » interpreting 20th century works mostly composed by Western composers, but also by Chinese and Korean composers, in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). This observation offers a case study about musical globalisation. The small-scale ethnography allows me to examine historical, political and identity issues on a local level. This paper shows that the small group of Uzbek musicians interpreting foreign composers is not only importing music from abroad. Through their practice, their taste, and their engagement, they are demonstrating their agency in their musical projects. In doing this, they are constantly renegotiating their musical identity in dialogue with external references and influences. ; L'observation d'un ensemble de musique « contemporaine » qui interprète en Ouzbékistan un répertoire vingtiémiste en grande partie occidental, mais aussi chinois et coréen, ouvre une perspective privilégiée sur un phénomène de globalisation musicale. L'ethnographie à petite échelle permet d'observer les enjeux locaux aux niveaux politique, historique et identitaire de cette circulation de la musique. Il apparaît ainsi qu'Omnibus, ce petit groupe de musiciens d'Ouzbékistan qui interprète des compositeurs étrangers ne procède pas à une simple importation de musique étrangère. À travers leurs pratiques, leurs goûts, leur engagement pour former un public, ils sont pleinement acteurs de projets par lesquels ils renégocient en permanence une identité musicale en dialogue constant avec des références extérieures.

In Zeiten vielschichtiger Krisen stellt der beschleunigte soziale Wandel Spaniens zwischen 2011 und 2016 ein Paradebeispiel für polarisierte Gesellschaften dar. Die Platzbesetzungen der Indignados (der »Empörten«) und die ihnen folgenden Entwicklungen in Zivilgesellschaft und Politik veränderten das Land grundlegend. Mit Diskursanalysen, Interviews, Ethnographien und einer historischen Einbettung rekonstruiert Conrad Lluis in einer umfassenden empirischen Studie die politischen Umbrüche Spaniens. Parallel dazu entfaltet er im Dialog mit der Empirie eine Hegemonietheorie, die Laclau und Mouffe weiterdenkt, und ebnet damit den Weg für eine postfundamentalistische Sozialtheorie

Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary 'refugee scholarship', this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility. With critical attention to the meaning, production and scope of 'refugee scholarship' generated at the institutions of higher education, it also focuses on 'refugee knowledge' produced outside academia, and scrutinizes the conditions according to which it is validated or silenced. Presenting studies of historical refuge and exile, together with the experiences of contemporary refugee scholars, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in forced migration, refugee studies, the sociology of knowledge and the phenomenon of 'insider' knowledge, and research methods and methodology.