Notes from the Field: Europe’s Harvest of Fear
Ethnography entails entering the worlds of others, both observing and participating in their daily lives. Unlike archival work, survey research, or experimental methods, ethnography is vulnerable to real-world events that can interrupt, redirect or unravel research. Such was the case with my study of mosques in three countries of Europe, after the killings of the Charlie Hebdo journalists. I chose mosques as my ethnographic site in order to enter...