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Eli Elinoff, "Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Power of Positionality in Ethnographic Research

Ilya Shapiro: I would also like to know about your methodology, Ilana. How did you go about conducting the research? And could you share with us perhaps some of the challenges you face or some of the rewarding moments you experienced?" She says her entree into railway communities occurred in two different directions. One was a kind of NGO driven, non-governmental driven activist organization. The other was a state, was a state policy. "Working on both of those ends enabled me to ... move through the project within these spaces of disagreement"

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