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Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back

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  • Lisa Vanhala
  • Angelica Johansson
  • Frances Butler

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What can an "ethnographic sensibility" contribute to research on climate change governance? With its emphasis on meaning making and understanding what may lie beneath more obvious interactions and processes, ethnographic methodologies, particularly collaborative event ethnography, are increasingly deployed to address complex questions and achieve conceptual leverage on issues related to climate governance. Drawing on literature in climate anthropology, material geography, and political ethnography, and with examples from our own fieldwork experiences, we devise a heuristic typology underpinned by an ethnographic sensibility to help guide the fieldwork phase of a research project. Building on the well-established practice of hanging out, we introduce hanging around, which attends to spatiality and matter; hanging in, which addresses issues of access and trust; and hanging back to guide the practice of reflexivity. We articulate what fieldwork with an ethnographic sensibility entails and discuss its potential and implications for climate governance research.

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  • Lisa Vanhala & Angelica Johansson & Frances Butler, 2022. "Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 22(2), pages 180-193, Spring.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:180-193
    DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00652
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