Why start with death?
Photo: Rosie O'Beirne (Creative Commons) Even I would have to admit it wasn’t the obvious way to go. The last three weeks have been amazing with the whole group coming together, but I have been on this...
View ArticleDoing stuff, and telling people about it
Photo by ehnmark (Creative Commons) Ok, this is a seriously big project. Starting from today, there will be eight simultenous 15-month ethnographies taking place in fieldsites around the world. To have...
View ArticleFacebook, death and memorialisation
Photo by Rosie O’Beirne (Creative Commons) Alongside my ethnographic research in The Glades I have now been working for over a year alongside The Hospice of St Francis. When I am in the UK I try to...
View ArticleThe no make-up Selfie
Image courtesy of Send me adrift., Creative Commons My previous blog post was about the Selfie and our failure to acknowledge its varieties including the ‘uglie’ and the poignancy of a Selfie that...
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