Abstracts Archive

In this presentation I use an autoethnographic approach to examine three events of language-related "failures," and which also highlighted the negative perceptions and distress of both participants and researcher regarding participant multilingualism. In the first example, I discuss my discomfort wi...

This paper draws on my ongoing ethnographic work conducted since 2019 in London (U.K.) that documents homeless individuals' interconnected networks and engagement in street businesses and livelihood strategies. In my fieldwork, my participants shared their fatigue about being constantly approached b...