ABSTRACT
This chapter describes urban legal anthropology and the methodologies this book draws on in developing and applying an urban form of legal anthropology, including the use of ethnographic methodologies and participant observation, informant engagement strategies, the tools of institutional ethnography and interdisciplinarity, as well as approaches to the ultimate goal of “writing up” the findings of an urban legal anthropology research project. The engagement of virtual communities, virtual networks, and social media in conducting research in the sociolegal urban context is also discussed in this chapter in relation to methodology and through examples that are drawn from the case studies that form the subject of later chapters.
