ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on a multi-sited ethnographic study of hospitality and considers several disruptive fieldwork practices involving physical presence, clothing, music and the shaping of consumption patterns. It examines how these practices were used to co-create knowledge regarding the production of space and the experiences of consuming hospitality. The chapter discusses three types of disruptive practice: embodied performances of self, experiments with music, and researcher-instigated co-consumption. The main music system in the Freelands was controlled from behind the bar and staff were encouraged to play certain genres of music. Ethnographers are increasingly engaging in mobile forms of participant observation, accompanying consumers during visits to tourism, hospitality and leisure sites. It also examines how disruption and specific disruptive socio-material practices can be integrated into ethnographic fieldwork to co-create knowledge concerning the production and consumption of spaces and people's experiences of them.
