ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces ethnography and geo-ethnography as field-based approaches to research. Geo-ethnography emerged in the early 2000s and is taking root in feminist geographic scholarship. The chapter first provides a critical discussion of the colonial legacies of ethnography in anthropology and situates geo-ethnography in the paradigm shift of feminist ethnography and feminist geography. It then turns to helping the reader apply a feminist geo-ethnographic approach in their own research project by outlining the defining aspects of this approach: namely, that it is place based, addresses the everyday, requires thinking across scale and tracing power, is relational and embodied, and engages with feminist activism.
