TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose What difference, if any, does it make to appeal to the ordinary and the everyday, the situated and always-already-in-relation, the emergent and the quasi-event (Povinelli, 2011), as simultaneously sites, objects and frames? The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach Through a focus on epistemological and methodological reflection, this paper asks: what is the relation between the biopolitical and necropolitical terrain in and through which experience unravels and the conceptual apparatuses which hold the promise of analysis and critique? What analytics, methods and ethics do contemporary life and death formations and intersecting precarious modes of existence elicit?Findings In this paper, I approach these questions ethnographically, with reference to debates in social and cultural theory and drawing on long-term anthropological research in Guatemala.Originality/value This paper aims to make contribution to debates on biopolitical and necropolitical processes and dynamics, by reflecting on the implications for epistemologies, methods and infrastructures.
VL  - 17
IS  - 3
SN  - 1443-9883
DO  - 10.1108/QRJ-10-2016-0063
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-10-2016-0063
AU  - Posocco Silvia
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Life, death, ethnography: epistemologies and methods of the quasi-event
T2  - Qualitative Research Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 177
EP  - 187
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -