ABSTRACT
Recorridos explorativos and entrevistas en movimiento are two complementary strategies that set 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 studying large and heterogeneous urban territories. Framed as such, mobile ethnography is a systematic and situated strategy for empirically studying urbanization – and one that is inventive, comparative and possibly useful for analyzing other current multi-sited and multi-scalar socio-spatial transformations more generally. Such a mode of inquiry invites anthropologists to further decentralize methodological perspectives, particularly by encouraging more collaborative ways of knowledge production.
