Ethnographic construction of a road: notes on a nodal approach to a more-than-conventional field site

Zhou, Ximin (2020) Ethnographic construction of a road: notes on a nodal approach to a more-than-conventional field site. Field Research Methods Lab Blog (20 Jul 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

This contribution presents a modest insight into doing fieldwork on a road – the subject of the author’s research – by offering notes on a nodal approach to the road as an interchange of place and non-place. In particular, it concerns the challenge posed by the road as an anthropological subject that is fluid and without definitive boundaries. Such challenge thus prompts the device of a nodal approach that opens up a route in ethnographic practices that require making connections. An anthropological study of a city road reveals not only its multiple facets as an infrastructure, but it also prompts the ethnographic construction of a dynamic field site, writes Ximin Zhou.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearch/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2025 15:09
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2025 15:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126740

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