Explore and Experience the Urban Field
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…
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During the weeks of Oct. 10 and Oct. 24th, 2016, three graduate students from the University of Toronto Ethnography Lab (EL) and two graduate students from Humboldt University’s Georg-Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies (GSZ) engaged in an exchange project to initiate the establishment of a long-term transnational research collaboration under the working label of Urban…
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Doctoral students Carolin Genz and Holger Wilcke from Humboldt University hosted University of Toronto students Jessika Tremblay (PhD student), Bronwyn Frey (MA student) and Henry Lee Heinonen (MA student) in Berlin in October 2016. Our activities in Berlin were dedicated to establishing an official link between the University of Toronto Ethnography Lab (EL) and the…
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Read MoreExplore and Experience the Urban Field by Carolin Genz and Diana Lucas-Drogan Urban space is one of the central research fields of Anthropology which understands cities as social laboratories where social and cultural developments are initiated and condensed. Nevertheless, Urban Anthropology depends on the views of other disciplines like historical and social sciences, architecture, geography,…
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