28 juin 2023
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, « Nocturnal Ethnographies: Aesthetics and Imaginaries of the Night », International Night Studies Network, ID : 10670/1.vdz1h1
How do ethnographers conduct research at and on night? Are there specific sensibilities linked to the segment of the 24-hour cycle that emerge when night falls? What sort of imaginaries and aesthetics do the nocturnal hours invoke? The articulated and rich responses that we gathered around these questions in the current issue testify to the urgent need to address them, especially in a field – social sciences – that has been historically tied to diurnal practices and day-centered methods (such...