Abstract
This issue has taken shape within the context of a global pandemic, and despite these challenges it has provided a welcome space to continue our common intellectual work. Our authors hail from around the globe and have each experienced different aspects of this volatility in different ways at different times. The issue features a special collection entitled Trial by Fire. These essays probe and question the underlying assumptions embedded within the initiatory rites of immersive fieldwork, and the personal consequences and costs that fieldworkers sometimes bear. This issue also contains two articles on the complex ethics of collaboration, an interview with the authors of a graphic ethnography, as well as an extract of this work. Taken together, the contributions to this third issue of Commoning Ethnography continue to address the journal’s core provocations. They explore the way in which ethnography exceeds the boundaries of the Academy and connects scholarly knowledge to other intellectual and artistic modes of knowing and doing. And they probe the complex ethics and politics of ethnographic knowledge production in innovated ways.
Highlights
The year 2020 has, to put it very mildly, been a wild one. It has been a year of disease, a year of fire, a year of violence and a year of profound disagreement
It has been a year that has, at times, crawled and, at other times, been a blur of manic change. It has been a year of frantic, urgent mobility followed by long periods of stasis
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the changes wrought by COVID have had their own character: we experienced a period of significant lockdown, but we have enjoyed periods of freedom and movement
Summary
The year 2020 has, to put it very mildly, been a wild one. It has been a year of disease, a year of fire, a year of violence and a year of profound disagreement. The Editorial Collective Eli Elinoff, Lorena Gibson and Catherine Trundle We attempt to build a common intellectual community over vast distances through technological mediation, encountering both the possibilities and limits of that way of living all at once: Nice to see you all!
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
