Methods – Page 2 – Urban Ethnography Lab

June 13, 2017January 4, 2018

Upcoming Workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings”

Ethnography in Urban Settings Intersections. Methods. Visions. August 29 – 30, 2017 | Toronto Our first workshop Ethnography in Urban Settings: Intersections. Methods. Visions. will take place on August 29th and August 30th, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. The workshop will straddle the disciplinary boundaries of urban anthropology and human geography, with the intended purpose to promote rigorous…

May 31, 2017January 4, 2018

Welcome to the Methods

The Urban Ethnography Lab aims to experiment with new ethnographic methods for urban settings. We will periodically post about our events and activities related to this. Ethnography can be seen as a toolbox of various qualitative methods, it is not just one method to follow and answer the questions of your research, it is a…

December 8, 2016January 4, 2018

Welcome to the UEL Blog

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The Urban Ethnography Lab is an initiative by scholars from the Humboldt University’s Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, the Institute for Contemporary Design Practices HGK in Basel, the Department of Social and Cultural Geography from Humboldt-University of Berlin and University of Toronto’s Ethnography Lab.

As one of the Urban Research Groups at the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies the Urban Ethnography Lab is a growing centre that promotes ethnographic research methods in the interdisciplinary section of urban studies.