Abstract

PUJADAS, Joan Josep. Mobile ethnography, between accompaniment and shadowing: notes from the study of daily mobility in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. Etnográfica [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.2, pp.361-386. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.5531.

The study of the daily mobility in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelonaimplied rethinking the methodological instruments necessary to study this phenomenon. The localized contextualization of the subjects under analysis has been replaced by the analysis of people’s mobilities, their directionality and the meaning they assume in the subjects’ daily lives. This mobile ethnography has been essentially based on an instrument consisting of the accompaniment of travels and movements of people going to work, to school or solving the whole universe of needs arising from personal, domestic and reproductive life. This emphasis on accompaniment shifts the analytical perspective of the shadowing, considering this technique too intrusive.

Keywords : mobility; methodology; mobile ethnography; accompaniment; shadowing.

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