Repair shops also repair the street from being a dead space of transit to a lively public place of connections that sustain livelihoods and sociality, a place to pause in, interact with, return to, and seek out.
Over many weekends, the same ritual unfolded each afternoon. A white horse appeared at almost the same hour, completed its slow round of a South Delhi enclave and disappeared once more beneath the trees. At first, the spectacle seemed scarcely worthy of notice. Still, its recurrence drew attention to what the noise of the metropolis so often conceals. Along a single stretch of road, social worlds that customarily remain apart briefly converged – a child’s leisure, an attendant’s daily labour, contemporary anxieties of affluent parenting and older inheritances of social mobility and class distinction. What began as an unremarkable routine of the block became a way of understanding how urban childhood is imagined, organised and lived, without ever stepping beyond the horse’s familiar circuit.
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25 May 2026 Marcos Emilio Pérez Realizar trabajo de campo cualitativo transnacional durante un doctorado es una gran experiencia. La oportunidad de conocer sobre otras personas, explorar un tema relevante y desarrollar habilidades hace que la etnografía sea muy gratificante, tanto a nivel personal como profesional. Sin embargo, también es una metodología exigente, especialmente para…
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27 March 2026 Priyanjali Mitra I initially intended to study the working lives of migrant workers in a city I grew up in and thought I knew. What I was not prepared for was how consistently those conversations kept turning toward fear, precarity, everyday violence as one register of a much larger, layered order of…
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13 March 2026 Marcos Emilio Pérez Doing transnational qualitative fieldwork as a graduate student can be an incredible experience. The opportunity to learn about other people’s lives, explore a topic you care about, and hone your skills make ethnography both personally and professionally rewarding. However, it is also a very demanding endeavor, especially for early-career…
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13 January 2025 Rogelio Ramos Torres On the road A misty moon shines at midnight over a rushing crowd in a sports park on the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. More than three thousand people, members of one of the last caravans that for some years have been crossing the country heading north, are preparing their…
