Pandemic fragility and/as ethnography

Abstract

Doing ethnography often evokes complexity, ambiguity and chaos in thinking and practicalities. All this is part of ethnographic work. Yet, the Covid-19 pandemic brought additional challenges in our ethnographic research, and these affected each of us differently. Below we present our reflections on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected our research, both practically and emotionally. We wish to reclaim our situatedness and fragility as a genuine ethnographic experience, valuing vulnerability as a feminist ethnographic methodology (Page 2017). Please note that we wrote this text in October 2020.