Dr Mariana Borges

🎉 What an incredible year for CPE!
We hosted some of the best scholars in political ethnography, launched new series, and ended with our first-ever CPE workshop. Here’s a look back at 2024—and what’s coming next! 🧵

📢 Check out the new Spring issue of QMMR!
It features a Classroom Notes piece by our co-director @marianaborges.bsky.social, reflecting on how the digital world has become central to everyday life and how we can prepare researchers to engage with it as a vital window into the lives of those we study

🌟New publication! I'm thrilled to have contributed to one of my favorite political science venues —QMMR— with a piece on the challenges of conducting digital ethnography and how we might teach it. Honored to be part of an issue filled with excellent contributions from great colleagues.

It was incredibly, as always, to hear your thoughts and have a peak at your ethnographic material! And so good to have the chance to dialogue with you, @pinheiromachado.bsky.social ! Can't wait to continue the conversation too! Thank you for coming!

Fabulous to be with the @polethnography.bsky.social and an honour to give the keynote

Brilliant work by @marianaborges.bsky.social @cintranatalia.bsky.social & Antje Scharenberg ❤️

Great to see @kkcheuk.bsky.social again! A room full of excellent scholars

Can’t wait to continue the conversation!

Fabulous to be with the @polethnography.bsky.social and an honour to give the keynote

Brilliant work by @marianaborges.bsky.social @cintranatalia.bsky.social & Antje Scharenberg is pushing

Great to see @kkcheuk.bsky.social again! A room full of excellent early career researchers.

I was glad to present my paper at this excellent workshop. Thanks to @cintranatalia.bsky.social @marianaborges.bsky.social and Antje for organising it, and to @fransplains.bsky.social for her generous insights. Congratulations to all presenters for such engaging and rigorous work!

If you are in Southampton, join me for my public keynote and an engaging workshop on ethnography and political studies next Wednesday, hosted by the @polethnography.bsky.social
alongside extraordinary colleagues.

I’m so thrilled to be delivering the keynote at this event on such an important theme: ethnography and politics! I can’t wait to be surrounded by fellow ethnographers again. If you’re in the area, my keynote is open to the public—hope to see you there! Thanks @polethnography.bsky.social

🍒 The cherry on top? Our keynote speaker, @pinheiromachado.bsky.social, will share fresh insights from her global work at @deeplab.bsky.social , exploring how digital entrepreneurship and precarity shape far-right mobilization.

We’re so excited for our first CPE Workshop this July!
@cintranatalia.bsky.social has brought together an amazing group of participants from across disciplines for a rich day of discussing the ethnography of politics around the globe.

The CPE is delighted to welcome prof Rosana @pinheiromachado.bsky.social to @unisouthampton.bsky.social for our workshop next week for a keynote lecture entitled: Rage, Dreams and Insubordination: How the Far Right and Social Media Mobilize the Working Class. If you are around, please pop by!

Training course: Political Ethnography This course aims to teach participants how to conduct qualitative field research, particularly participant observation and ordinary language interviewing. The course provides an understanding of the

You can register directly through this link: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

So happy about this @polethnography.bsky.social @ncrm.ac.uk partnership—and thrilled to be promoting methods training in ethnography for political research! Looking forward to welcoming participants in September 🙌

We’re excited to share that our co-director @marianaborges.bsky.social will be delivering an in-person Political Ethnography methods course this September, in partnership with @ncrm.ac.uk
The course offers hands-on activities and a deep dive into what makes a good ethnography in political research.

📢 Friendly reminder: today is the last day to submit your abstract for our upcoming workshop "Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?".

If you're a PhD student or ECR using ethnographic or related qualitative methods to study politics, don't miss this opportunity!

Yeah! Congratulations, Fran!

Call for Submissions: Centre for Political Ethnography Workshop “Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?” Based in the Politics and International Relations Department (PAIR), CPE’s goal is to promote the use of ethnographic methods in political science and to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers who use ethnography to explore topics related to politics — broadly understood.

🚨Sign up now for @unisouthampton.bsky.social Centre for Political Ethnography Workshop🚨
July 2nd 2025

“Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?” 🎉

🌟 Inc/ keynote speech from @pinheiromachado.bsky.social 🌟

Info 👉 shorturl.at/VZcZj

@cintranatalia.bsky.social

📚 *Weekend Reading* 📚 This week is #BlackInclusionWeek and the PSA Race, Migration and Intersectionality Specialist Group @psa-race.bsky.social has a brilliant #booklist to share with you all. 📚 Share your own recommendations too!
#BIW2025 #InclusionMatters #diversityandinclusion #books #readinglist

So happy to receive @pinheiromachado.bsky.social at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social for our first CPE workshop! Can't wait for it!

📣 Have you sent in your paper yet?

If you're researching politics through an ethnographic lens, don’t miss the CPE Workshop this July at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social !

Join us for a full day of conversation, feedback, and community with like-minded scholars.
📬 Full details and submission link 👇.

Thanks for sharing @cdfuos.bsky.social 😍

Check out this qualitative methods workshop from our colleagues @polethnography.bsky.social. Get your proposals in by 30 May.

#polisky @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

Link to submit your abstract: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

🎉 Thrilled to share that the first Centre for Political Ethnography Workshop is happening July 2 at Southampton! A space for qual & ethnographic folks to connect, share WIP, and get thoughtful feedback from peers who truly get your method.
🌍 Bursaries available
📅 Apply by May 30! Through the link 👇

❗ FREE Summer School on 'Declining democratic health: Methods for diagnosis, treatment, and recovery' with us!

🗓️ June 23-24

📍 Southampton

More details: www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/news/...

🎉BISA has partnered with @unisouthampton.bsky.social alongside @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social with their launch of their first Methods Summer School!🎉
Open to PHD students and ECR's looking to share and grow expertise.
June 23 and 24 - buff.ly/09COCMh.

So happy to finally announce our CPE BlueSky account!

Please, follow us to know our activities, courses, lectures, workshops, coming forward as we slowly move from the other network to this one.

You can find more info on the CPE in our page: www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

Our funding pool is still open to PhDs, ECRs, and/orTeaching Fellows that are researching gender & inequalities at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ! Please do get in touch. More info in the post below and here: www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

Reallly looking forward to #PSA25 next week. If you're interested in democracy & political parties, please come and join us for the roundtable on my recent @uchicagopress.bsky.social book Parties under Pressure. Wed, 16 Apr, 3.30pm, The Rep-LOB102. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/bp7tpr4a