POPREBEL Ethnography Code Review Thread

[alberto]

@alberto

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.

I have now successfuly tested a workaround.

So, if you are in the following situation:

1. You have coded a post.
2. After coding, you have edited that post, inserting one or more paragraphs before the last annotation.
3. As a consequence of that, the rendering of the post in coding view is nonsensical.

Then you can do the following:

1. 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 wiki from the drop-down menu.
2. Edit your post, and carefully re-delete the inserted paragraph.
3. Check that the post once again renders correctly in coding view.
4. 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.

[Jan]

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

[alberto]

@Jan

because I do not have enough to do

@Jan

Do you know any good pieces on ethnographies of movements/protests? I need to begin drafting my introduction.

Will think about it.

[Maniamana]

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.

[jitka.kralova]

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.

[Jan]

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

[ivan]

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

[nadia]

Hi Jan are you looking for published academic papers or the first hand accounts from people in the thick of things?

[alberto]

@ivan

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?

This is also a need on the reviewers’ side – I sent most of you an email on Monday about it.

[Richard]

Dear all. I will try to attend today’s meeting but, as the SSEES Director is unavailable all day, I’m now in charge of efforts to get our students out of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

[Maniamana]

Dear All. My situation is somewhat similar to Richard’s. I went back to Poland due to family issues, with my grandma being sick and celebrating her 85th birthday on Tuesday. But the day after her birthday we started to convince our family and friends in Ukraine to get the fuck out of there, pardon my French - yesterday we welcomed four of my friends and relatives to my family home in Warsaw. Today I am awaiting the arrival of two of my friends and their small children to my apartment in Warsaw. I am very sorry I wasn’t able to upload my transcriptions to the platform.
I am looking forward to going back on my usual work track, I will join today’s meeting if there will be one. I am now back at my flat in Warsaw, happy to take my mind off the war, waiting for my friend’s news whether they did or did not cross the border is real torture.
On a side note, if you know anybody who needs shelter or transportation in Poland, I am ready to help.

[jitka.kralova]

hi all, do we have a link?

[alberto]

I have Launch Meeting - Zoom but no one’s there.

[jitka.kralova]

Hi @rebelethno,

Unfortunately, I cannot join today’s meeting as I am in the Krkonoše mountains and won’t have access to wifi.

I spoke with Alberto last Friday and he asked us to put together some key fieldwork takeaways – I wrote up a summary and sent it to him already.

Quick update from my side – I spent whole week last week in Ostrava, doing interviews with ex-miners in the region – it was for another project, but there is lots of great material which we could make use of for POPREBEL, so I am trying to get their consents to use the data for our project.

If someone takes minutes from today’s meeting, Ill happily read them on Monday.

Hope everyone and their families are keeping safe in these insane times.

J.

[alberto]

I am also unable to join, I had to leave suddenly for Italy for a small family emergency. Apologies.

[Jirka_Kocian]

Transcript from our meeting today (4.3.2022):
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[alberto]

@Jirka_Kocian

epsilon

epsilon?

[Jirka_Kocian]

as “Y”

[Jirka_Kocian]

Transcript from our meeting today (11.3.2022):
meeting_saved_closed_caption.txt (52.3 KB)

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[alberto]

@Wojt and @Jan, I have your answer about the performance issue in OpenEthno: Open Ethno reported slowing down. Can it be a matter of intensity of coding? · Issue #226 · edgeryders/discourse-annotator · GitHub.