Next March 25, at 12pm local time, Paolo Boccagni will give a talk at Princeton University, hosted by Princeton’s PIIRS Working group H4 – HOME/HOUSE/HOUSEHOLD/HOMELAND, led by Dr. Amelia Frank-Vitale (Department of Anthropology, Princeton University). See the abstract below.

HOMING THROUGH THE FIELD: METHODS, CHALLENGES AND EMERGING WAYS OF APPROACHING HOME FROM THE MARGINS

In this workshop, I aim to a collective and critical reflection on fieldwork into “home”. Based on my fieldwork experience in ERC HOMInG, I look at the predominant ways of researching home through narratives (informal conversations, in-depth interviews, oral histories), practices (ethnography, mobile methods) and traces (document analysis, material culture, visual methods). Participants are welcome to share their stories from the field, including less conventional, site- (or people-) specific ways of fieldwork.