Hi @rebelethno
Here’s a link to a spreadsheet Poland - Czech Interviews - Google Tabellen Mania and I put together. In the Analytics sheet, we started noting down potential topics that we could start incorporating into our interviews.
Feel free to add your ideas and it would be nice if we could briefly discuss this during the meeting this Friday. 
Dear all, I am afraid I am not managing to join our meeting today. Hope I will catch up next week
Hi guys, are we meeting today?
@Wojt and @Jan I found out why approaches to social change is included in POPREBEL. It is because one of its children has this annotation on the POPREBEL International corpus.
So, in this case, no bug, but an annoying lack of clear separation between different projects. This will be fixed by the next rollout.
I also discussed the issues you reported with @matthias , did some testing and reported them on GitHub as per his advice: one, two.
Hi @rebelethno,
Here is the list of themes we put together when we started working for POPREBEL → POPREBEL Fieldwork Thread - #18 by Maniamana. Looking back at it now it’s pretty extensive and covers a lot of relevant topics - I rarely cover all of them during my interviews.
It therefore might be just a question of revisiting them, highlighting ones that we should be focusing on from now on and maybe adding some of the more current topics as we started putting together here: Poland - Czech Interviews - Google Tabellen.
Unfortunately I won’t be able to join this Friday’s meeting, but if someone takes minutes, I’ll look at them later. The main question for me is whether we should keep the COVID / health emphasis going forward.
I have an answer for @Wojt and @Jan about the annotations that “make no sense”. It turns out to be a known issue. After coding the post, @Maniamana edited the post, adding a paragraph to its beginning (the new paragraph contains information on the informant). Open Ethnographer records annotations based on the paragraph, so when the numbering of paragraphs was altered (inserting a new paragraph 1 turned the old paragraph 1 into paragraph 2, and so on) the rendering of the paragraph was corrupted.
We are looking for a more robust solution, but for now I can state that this will not happen, unless you edit the post after coding. You can still add paragraphs at the end of the post without consequences, but anywhere else is at risk. Even better would be to add any additional information as a separate post in the same thread, hitting the Reply button.
The annotation you mentioned was created on April 20, '21 but on May 20, '21 a paragraph was added to the start of the annotated post. As annotations are anchored to paragraphs, this messed up all annotations in the post. Internally the annotations are still present, but annotator is now unable to display them properly. When the beginning of a long post is edited is basically the worst case (and happens rarely) as it messes up all annotations after the edited paragraph.
Ok, we will!
Good afternoon/Good morning team! Where are we meeting today?
try this
I have now successfuly tested a workaround.
So, if you are in the following situation:
- You have coded a post.
- After coding, you have edited that post, inserting one or more paragraphs before the last annotation.
- As a consequence of that, the rendering of the post in coding view is nonsensical.
Then you can do the following:
- At the bottom of the post in question, click on the three dots icon. That icon resolves into several more icons. Click the spanner icon, then select
Make wikifrom the drop-down menu. - Edit your post, and carefully re-delete the inserted paragraph.
- Check that the post once again renders correctly in coding view.
- If that does not work out, you can always edit your post again (click on the wiki edits icon), and revert the edit. The rendering will still make no sense, but at least you will not have lost any text.
In the case of this post, maybe @Maniamana can try erasing the paragraph that she added on May 20th, and then checking if the rendering is correct again.
At this point, she can re-include that paragraph, either at the end of the post or in a different post.
Dear @alberto , dear All,
because I do not have enough to do (as you know well), some time ago I agreed to be a guest editor of a special issue of the Polish journal published in English, Ethnologia Polona. Its topic: ethnographies of protest. We have already several submissions and I see that their authors talk about doing participatory and/or interpretive research in social movements, both on the left and on the right (actually we have two submission from our FATIGUE colleagues). My key motivation was to improve my knowledge and understanding of one of the chief methods we use in POPREBEL, ethnography, particularly to gain a better grasp on what we do here: what is the meaning of digital ethnography?
I am writing to (1) let you know that I am involved in this project (some of it may be handy for us, somehow) and (2) ask for recommendations? Do you know any good pieces on ethnographies of movements/protests? I need to begin drafting my introduction.
Ciao,
J
Will think about it.
Hi Jan! When it comes to protest, resistance, and alike, I highly recommend the work of Jeffrey S. Juris, with a new tech component, and of course classics like Lila Abu Lughod or James Scott. When it comes to digital ethnography there’s a sea of work, but most importantly work of Postill and Pink on Spain, I also really liked this article: https://blogs.umass.edu/jdrosa/files/2015/01/Bonilla-Rosa-2015-Ferguson.pdf
There is way way more, now I am just sharing some names from the top of my head, I could definitely provide more reference later on. I have a strong resistance angle in my PhD fieldwork.
Hi @Jan,
You are either a workoholic or a very passionate scholar - it seems to me you are both.
Your request is quite broad - is there something more specific when it comes to resistance and protest that you want to tackle? I feel like 90% of the newer anthro canon is dealing with this topic.
I am pasting below some references that might be useful. Majority deals with urban resistance and protest:
Colomb, Claire, and Johannes Novy. 2017. Protest and resistance in the tourist city. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge
Dzenovska, D. and Arenas, I. (2010) ‘Making “the People”: Political Imaginaries and the Materiality of Barricades in Mexico and Latvia’, Laboratorium: Russian Social Research Review, 2: 179-199
Dzenovska, D. & De Genova, N. (2018) Desire for the political in the aftermath of the Cold War in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 80(1) , Berghahn.
Kuřik, Bob. 2016. “Emerging Subjectivity in Protest.” in S. Vallas & D. Courpasson (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Resistance. pp. 51–77. London, UK: SAGE Publishing.
———. 2015. “Revolutionary Amoebas: political versatility as the art of resistance in Germany.” PhD dissertation, Charles University in Prague.
Jacobsson, Kerstin. 2015. Urban grassroots movements in central and eastern europe. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Novak, Arnošt, and Bob Kuřik. 2020. Rethinking radical activism: Heterogeneity and dynamics of political squatting in prague after 1989. Journal of Urban Affairs: Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and China: Socio-Spatial Structures and Scales of Contention 42 (2): 203-21.
Pixova, Michaela. 2018. The empowering potential of reformist urban activism in czech cities. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 29 (4): 670-82
Polanska, Dominika V., and Grzegorz Piotrowski. 2015. The transformative power of cooperation between social movements: Squatting and tenants’ movements in poland. City 19 (2-3): 274-96.
Razsa, Maple. 2015. Bastards of utopia : Living radical politics after socialism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the weak [electronic resource] : Everyday forms of peasant resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Dear All, many thanks! @jitka.kralova - there is a third option: I am insane.
Yes, I should have been more precise, although I am interested in and appreciate general reactions also (very helpful). So, specifically: I want to find “real” ethnographies" of protest by someone who was “inside” and can write about it (most people cannot - well, not everybody is Malinowski or Geertz). So, I want to eliminate from my purview all those “para-ethnographies” (like ours) and “virtual ethnographies” that still “smell” to me like varieties of content analysis. All of this is of course very valuable in its own right, but I want find examples of old-fashioned fieldwork skillfully reported. I have one case so far among the submissions to the volume I am helping to put together. J
Hi, @rebelethno
A brief service interruption from my side.
As you are (probably 
) aware, we began organising the impact conference for the project and started defining its structure.
In our intentions, the central event would be based on the ethnographers’ findings.
To prepare it well we need to know, with some haste, what are they going to be. Not the details, but a general overview. Could I ask you to prepare a brief on this?
Also, we would like to include in the presentation of the panel, the points of view on the research of the team working on it. It would be great if we could have some of your time (60-90 minutes give or take) in the following weeks to chat about this.
In case, I will contact you personally to schedule it.
Cheers,
Ivan
Hi Jan are you looking for published academic papers or the first hand accounts from people in the thick of things?