Paper short abstract:

Coming from a wide range of disciplines – Anthropology, Architecture, Psychology, Sociology, Geography, Political Science – how do urban ethnographers in Portugal refer to their interlocutors and to their fields?

Paper long abstract:

Coming from a wide range of disciplines – Anthropology, Architecture, Psychology, Sociology, Geography, Political Science – how do urban ethnographers in Portugal refer to their interlocutors and to their fields?

Urban ethnographies in Portugal were born only after the Revolution in 1974 (after 50 years of Dictatorshio) (Cordeiro and Afonso 2003). Slowly, a group of studies came to light, not only tracked by anthropologists, but also by other social science researchers. This presentation tells that story, a recent story with a small group of senior researchers and a big group of young researchers, from a diversity of scientific backgrounds.

Following a post-PhD project about Urban Ethnography in Portugal which included professional trajectories interviews analysed for this purpose, some interrogations are at stake in this presentation: considering Urban Ethnographers in Portugal, how do they conceive their fields? Coming from other social and human sciences, such as Sociologists, Architects, Geographers, what sort of considerations they make about familiarity/proximity with their fieldwork sites?