Series: New Ethnographies

This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers...

Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of old age comes to be...

An Ethnography of English Football Fans, available in paperback due to popular demand, is an ethnographic account of English football fans, based upon sixteen years of participant observation. The author identifies a distinct sub-culture of supporters - the 'carnival fan' - who dominated the travelling support of the three teams observed: Manchester United, Blackpool and the England national team. This...