Recorridos explorativos and entrevistas en movimiento are two complementary strategies that sets ethnography in motion. Together they form the basis of a specific methodological design of mobile ethnography that draws on well-established qualitative strategies and adapts them to study large and heterogeneous urban territories. Framed as such, mobile ethnography is a systematic and situated – and at the same time inventive and comparative – strategy to empirically study urbanisation, and possibly useful to analyse other current multi-sited and multi-scalar socio-spatial transformations more in general. Such a mode of inquiry invites anthropologists to further decentralise methodological perspectives, particularly by encouraging more collaborative ways of knowledge production.
Streule, Monika (2023) How to set ethnography in motion. In: Sánchez Criado, Tomás and Adolfo Estalella (eds.) An ethnographic inventory. Field devices for anthropological inquiry. New York: Routledge, 133–142.
