Writing from the Wound: Racial Melancholia and the Entangled Affects of Feminist Ethnography
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Published online on July 27, 2026
Abstract
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This article is about the necessity of working with and through the concept of racial melancholia in ethnographic work as a racialized insider researcher. I rework this concept in light of my fieldwork in Kurdistan, Turkey, and Denmark, by examining the ...
This article is about the necessity of working with and through the concept of racial melancholia in ethnographic work as a racialized insider researcher. I rework this concept in light of my fieldwork in Kurdistan, Turkey, and Denmark, by examining the ...