Welcome to the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE)
…a transnational, independent research and creation network whose work spans Canada, China, Cuba, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, and Poland, and is home to 84 members located around the world.
…a space for hospitality that welcomes you to join conversations about new ethnographic writing, and multisensory, multimedia, and multimodal storytelling in practice, in theory, and in learning and teaching.
…a point of departure that invites you to live and work differently, to reimagine the pasts, presents and futures of the worlds we inhabit.
Featured Posts
Plastic Bodies by Sheila Pree Bright
In the words of Sheila Pree Bright Plastic Bodies "contrasts trends of Eurocentric beauty culture by using the fragmented bodies of ethnic women [...]
Audio Sensorium: The Noise Project
The Noise Project - curated by Labspace Studio - examines the concept of noise from a citizens perspective. Participants in the project included a [...]
Recent Posts
We invite contributions in all languages!
Please join us in this work in progress and in building the CIE. We invite contributions in all languages. Become a [...]
CIE updates and events for this new semester
Dear CIE members, Now that the fall is at our doorstep, we wanted to let you know about a [...]
Comics-based dissertation, by Ebony Flowers
Hi everyone, I graduated this semester (yAy!) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. [...]
Creative Urbanity, by Emanuela Guano
Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization by Emanuela Guano University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016; [...]
I swear I saw this: A review by Hannah Wadle
Michael Taussig (2011). I swear I saw this. Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own. The University of Chicago Press, [...]
Conclusive Remarks on Islam in France and the USA by Lisa Feder (Final post in her six part series)
Conclusive Remarks on Islam in France and the USA October, 2016 My relationship with Famoro, in fact my relationship [...]
A Conversation with Famoro, Part 5 by Lisa Feder
A Conversation with Famoro Harlem, December 6, 2015 I am sitting in Famoro’s apartment again. We are talking about [...]
The Kids, by Lisa Feder (Part 4 in a 6 Part Series)
The Kids The Bronx, Summer 2016 Famoro has two daughters. Fatimata, who is nineteen, lives in Conakry, the capital [...]
Manding Baptisme by Lisa Feder (Part 3 in 6 Part Series)
Manding Baptisme Harlem, New York, November 2014 I’m sitting with about one hundred Guineans and Malians originally from West [...]