...Jana Stefan; Alison Hirst; Marco Guerci; Maria Laura Toraldo Purpose This paper aims to help workplace ethnographers navigate and reflect on primary access negotiations by scrutinising two of the concepts mentioned in the call for papers on this special issue: workplace relations and tensions. We...

... Failure Ethnography Anthropology Methodology Fieldwork Access Rapport Reciprocity Academic culture Theorizing Interpretation Research ethics Ethnography does not always go as planned. From the get-go, our research proposals may get rejected by research institutions, funding bodies...

... The collected data include semi-structured interviews, as well as several months of participant observation with street-level officers and superordinate staff, deepening previous discussions on research access and entrance. It further allows understanding street-level narratives, especially when it comes...

... the projects, many of which related to the access to the restricted workplace setting of a cargo ship. However, this paper is based on her positioning in the field after permission to access the ship had been granted by the shipping company. It was often challenging to overcome participants’ suspicions...