Paper short abstract:

We reserve this final slot for sharing ideas, making questions and opening a fruitful discussion. By providing an open space to let the discussion flow, the previous individual exercises of epistemic striptease will ideally end up in a collaborative intellectual choreography.

Paper long abstract:

We reserve this final slot for sharing ideas, making questions to panel participants and opening a fruitful discussion based on the presentations. The making-of stories told, written and performed by contributors will constitute the starting point from which we can analyse diverse aspects of the long journey from the micro-politics of field encounters to the macro-narratives of ethnography. This classical fascination for the "tricks of the trade" dates back to the times of Malinowski and his famous phrase "the ethnographer´s magic". In this occasion, the secrets revealed will help provide new insights on the ethnographic process to make our discipline move forward. Some bullet-questions to trigger discussion are the following:

In which way does the format chosen (video, performance, exhibition, written text, etc.) affect the content and the poetics of the discourse? How does the ethnographer manage to gather empirical pieces so to make a coherent story? How does the personality of the researcher influence the process of making up the narrative? In which ways the positionality in the field brings specific perspectives when telling the story? What impact have the emotions experienced in the field on the poetics of narrating?

However, instead of following a pre-formatted structure, this section´s aim consists on providing an open and free space to let the discussion flow. In this way, the previous individual exercises of epistemic striptease will ideally end up in a collaborative intellectual choreography.