M Radice
Biographic Data
| ID | 21281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Radice |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Radice |
| SIGNATURE | RADICE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2847-0111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Joy and Resistance in Carnival From the Ground Up
This piece draws on images and interviews featured in a 2024 outdoor photography exhibit, Carnival from the Ground Up, to explore how the joy of carnival in New Orleans can be read as resistance to the dominant social, political, and economic order. Although the creators of this exhibit and this piece have heard people speak of their carnival experiences with the word joy ever since they started documenting them, in 2025, they observed much more …
The flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans
Carnival in New Orleans is a complex, vibrant field of cultural production that generates a wealth of material culture. In the small-scale, countercultural 'new wave' of carnival 'krewes' or clubs that have proliferated since Hurricane Katrina, that material culture is often handmade. Framed by Daniel Miller's dialectical theory of material culture and drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning several carnival seasons, this paper unpacks what is…
Ethnographie ponctuelle
Pop-up ethnography (ethnographie ponctuelle) is a collection of ethnographic methods that can be used to capture social life at the register of spaces and times that do not belong to any particular social group or milieu. Pop-up ethnography is especially useful for studying urban public spaces, as well as time-limited events such as festivals or artistic interventions
Seven Years with the JUE
In this editorial, Martha Radice, JUE's Editor-in-Chief for seven years, discusses her work and contributions to the JUE
Postface: Dignité et indignité dans la recherche de la convivialité
Postface
Pop-Up Ethnography: Methods for Studying Social Relations at the Register of Urban Public Space
As tensions around the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture move back toward the centre stage of politics in the global north, it becomes ever more important to investigate how social relations between diverse groups play out in everyday urban life. Many studies of urban diversity rely on in-depth interviews or focus groups reflecting on the topic as their main method, while the growing number that include observation in public often say litt…
The Call of the Great Indoors
In February-March, 2021, Hermes, a gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia about the size of two large living rooms showed an exhibition called ESCAPE / The Great Indoors. Curated by Halifax's then Young Curator Liuba González de Armas, the exhibition brought together "cozy, bright, and colourful explorations of domestic space by four emerging artists" working with textiles, painting, installation, and social practice. In this piece, I explore ESCAPE / T…
Afterword: Dignity and indignities in the quest for conviviality
Afterword
Creativity, Sociability, Solidarity: New-Wave Carnival Krewes’ Responses to Covid-19 in New Orleans
New Orleans was one of the first cities in the USA to be severely affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article draws on long-term ethnography and recent remote fieldwork to explore how new-wave carnival krewes in New Orleans responded to the pandemic. New-wave krewes are one of the kinds of social clubs that produce carnival each year. During the first four months of the pandemic, some of them undertook various kinds of projects within their m…
Editor’s Welcome
This article introduces the issue and welcomes the new co-editor, Dr. Karen McGarry
The Twelve-Step Guide to Publishing in the JUE
This article introduces the issue and provides a short guide to the JUE publication process
Sociality, spatiality, conviviality, community
In this commentary, I argue that Lived Experiences of Multiculture makes a significant contribution to analyses of contemporary urban diversity, particularly in its innovative comparative research design and strong place-based analysis. However, I suggest that it needs a more thorough analysis of the forms and qualities of sociality at stake in everyday multiculture, which will help us think through the potential compatibility of the concepts of …
Informed Consent
The principle of informed consent specifies that individuals' consent to participate in research should be based on as full an understanding as possible of the purpose, parameters, risks, benefits, and outcomes of the study. Anthropological approaches to research, however, raise questions about both the “informed” and “consent” elements of the concept. Pragmatically, anthropologists often work to broaden bureaucratic understandings of informed co…
La cohabitation interethnique dans quatre quartiers de classes moyennes à Montréal: Deux petites leçons tirées des discours sur la diversité1
Les sciences sociales manifestent un certain regain d’intérêt pour les classes moyennes, notamment dans les contextes où l’on considère que leur rôle est central dans certaines dynamiques urbaines (la gentrification, les enjeux liés au marché du logement ou encore la croissance des partis politiques de droite). Or, au Québec, et plus largement au Canada, les chercheurs ont négligé les classes moyennes en s’intéressant plutôt aux deux extrémités d…
Putting the Public in Public Art: An Ethnographic Approach to Two Temporary Art Installations
Temporary public art installations are an increasingly common sight in industrialized cities. This reflects local government and civic organizations' interest in the potential social and economic benefits of art, as well as artists and curators' interest in engaging "the public." Yet little systematic social-scientific attention is paid to the ways that public art, once installed, affects its site, and the ways that people interact with it. How c…
Comparing “insider” and “outsider” news coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak
What affects perceptions of neighbourhood change
Key Messages Residents of Halifax do not perceive economic or social and cultural changes in their neighbourhoods; however, they do perceive those to the built environment. When residents of Halifax perceive changes in their neighbourhoods, they tend to be positive about them. Tabular and regression analysis show that sense of belonging increases positive perceptions of neighbourhood change and older age decreases positive views of change
Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets
Conviviality has recently been taken up to capture everyday living-with-difference in multiethnic cities. Although it has usually been operationalised through an analysis of social interactions framed in neighbourhood or community settings, this article shifts the focus to more tightly delimited public places. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in four multiethnic neighbourhood commercial streets in Montréal, Quebec, it proposes a model that unpac…
Micro-cosmopolitanisms at the urban scale
Scholars may no longer see cosmopolitanism as the preserve of the jet-setting elite, but they still tend to focus on international travel as the primary means of acquiring cosmopolitan competence. However, one should not confuse mindsets with mileage: if travel does not always generate cosmopolitanism, then neither is it a precondition for it, so stay-at-homes can become cosmopolitan too. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in multiethni…
Ethnography of the Street: When is a Place not a Place
in focus, place, ethnography, urban anthropology, Montreal, fieldwork
Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer
Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets
Conviviality has recently been taken up to capture everyday living-with-difference in multiethnic cities. Although it has usually been operationalised through an analysis of social interactions framed in neighbourhood or community settings, this article shifts the focus to more tightly delimited public places. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in four multiethnic neighbourhood commercial streets in Montréal, Quebec, it proposes a model that unpac…
Putting the Public in Public Art: An Ethnographic Approach to Two Temporary Art Installations
Temporary public art installations are an increasingly common sight in industrialized cities. This reflects local government and civic organizations' interest in the potential social and economic benefits of art, as well as artists and curators' interest in engaging "the public." Yet little systematic social-scientific attention is paid to the ways that public art, once installed, affects its site, and the ways that people interact with it. How c…
Pop-Up Ethnography: Methods for Studying Social Relations at the Register of Urban Public Space
As tensions around the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture move back toward the centre stage of politics in the global north, it becomes ever more important to investigate how social relations between diverse groups play out in everyday urban life. Many studies of urban diversity rely on in-depth interviews or focus groups reflecting on the topic as their main method, while the growing number that include observation in public often say litt…
Comparing “insider” and “outsider” news coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak
What affects perceptions of neighbourhood change
Key Messages Residents of Halifax do not perceive economic or social and cultural changes in their neighbourhoods; however, they do perceive those to the built environment. When residents of Halifax perceive changes in their neighbourhoods, they tend to be positive about them. Tabular and regression analysis show that sense of belonging increases positive perceptions of neighbourhood change and older age decreases positive views of change
Ethnography of the Street: When is a Place not a Place
in focus, place, ethnography, urban anthropology, Montreal, fieldwork
Creativity, Sociability, Solidarity: New-Wave Carnival Krewes’ Responses to Covid-19 in New Orleans
New Orleans was one of the first cities in the USA to be severely affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article draws on long-term ethnography and recent remote fieldwork to explore how new-wave carnival krewes in New Orleans responded to the pandemic. New-wave krewes are one of the kinds of social clubs that produce carnival each year. During the first four months of the pandemic, some of them undertook various kinds of projects within their m…
Sociality, spatiality, conviviality, community
In this commentary, I argue that Lived Experiences of Multiculture makes a significant contribution to analyses of contemporary urban diversity, particularly in its innovative comparative research design and strong place-based analysis. However, I suggest that it needs a more thorough analysis of the forms and qualities of sociality at stake in everyday multiculture, which will help us think through the potential compatibility of the concepts of …
Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer
Ethnography of the Street: When is a Place not a Place
in focus, place, ethnography, urban anthropology, Montreal, fieldwork
Micro-cosmopolitanisms at the urban scale
Scholars may no longer see cosmopolitanism as the preserve of the jet-setting elite, but they still tend to focus on international travel as the primary means of acquiring cosmopolitan competence. However, one should not confuse mindsets with mileage: if travel does not always generate cosmopolitanism, then neither is it a precondition for it, so stay-at-homes can become cosmopolitan too. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in multiethni…
What affects perceptions of neighbourhood change
Key Messages Residents of Halifax do not perceive economic or social and cultural changes in their neighbourhoods; however, they do perceive those to the built environment. When residents of Halifax perceive changes in their neighbourhoods, they tend to be positive about them. Tabular and regression analysis show that sense of belonging increases positive perceptions of neighbourhood change and older age decreases positive views of change
Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets
Conviviality has recently been taken up to capture everyday living-with-difference in multiethnic cities. Although it has usually been operationalised through an analysis of social interactions framed in neighbourhood or community settings, this article shifts the focus to more tightly delimited public places. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in four multiethnic neighbourhood commercial streets in Montréal, Quebec, it proposes a model that unpac…
Comparing “insider” and “outsider” news coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak
Informed Consent
The principle of informed consent specifies that individuals' consent to participate in research should be based on as full an understanding as possible of the purpose, parameters, risks, benefits, and outcomes of the study. Anthropological approaches to research, however, raise questions about both the “informed” and “consent” elements of the concept. Pragmatically, anthropologists often work to broaden bureaucratic understandings of informed co…
La cohabitation interethnique dans quatre quartiers de classes moyennes à Montréal: Deux petites leçons tirées des discours sur la diversité1
Les sciences sociales manifestent un certain regain d’intérêt pour les classes moyennes, notamment dans les contextes où l’on considère que leur rôle est central dans certaines dynamiques urbaines (la gentrification, les enjeux liés au marché du logement ou encore la croissance des partis politiques de droite). Or, au Québec, et plus largement au Canada, les chercheurs ont négligé les classes moyennes en s’intéressant plutôt aux deux extrémités d…
Putting the Public in Public Art: An Ethnographic Approach to Two Temporary Art Installations
Temporary public art installations are an increasingly common sight in industrialized cities. This reflects local government and civic organizations' interest in the potential social and economic benefits of art, as well as artists and curators' interest in engaging "the public." Yet little systematic social-scientific attention is paid to the ways that public art, once installed, affects its site, and the ways that people interact with it. How c…
The Twelve-Step Guide to Publishing in the JUE
This article introduces the issue and provides a short guide to the JUE publication process
Sociality, spatiality, conviviality, community
In this commentary, I argue that Lived Experiences of Multiculture makes a significant contribution to analyses of contemporary urban diversity, particularly in its innovative comparative research design and strong place-based analysis. However, I suggest that it needs a more thorough analysis of the forms and qualities of sociality at stake in everyday multiculture, which will help us think through the potential compatibility of the concepts of …
Editor’s Welcome
This article introduces the issue and welcomes the new co-editor, Dr. Karen McGarry
Creativity, Sociability, Solidarity: New-Wave Carnival Krewes’ Responses to Covid-19 in New Orleans
New Orleans was one of the first cities in the USA to be severely affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article draws on long-term ethnography and recent remote fieldwork to explore how new-wave carnival krewes in New Orleans responded to the pandemic. New-wave krewes are one of the kinds of social clubs that produce carnival each year. During the first four months of the pandemic, some of them undertook various kinds of projects within their m…
Seven Years with the JUE
In this editorial, Martha Radice, JUE's Editor-in-Chief for seven years, discusses her work and contributions to the JUE
Postface: Dignité et indignité dans la recherche de la convivialité
Postface
Pop-Up Ethnography: Methods for Studying Social Relations at the Register of Urban Public Space
As tensions around the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture move back toward the centre stage of politics in the global north, it becomes ever more important to investigate how social relations between diverse groups play out in everyday urban life. Many studies of urban diversity rely on in-depth interviews or focus groups reflecting on the topic as their main method, while the growing number that include observation in public often say litt…
The Call of the Great Indoors
In February-March, 2021, Hermes, a gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia about the size of two large living rooms showed an exhibition called ESCAPE / The Great Indoors. Curated by Halifax's then Young Curator Liuba González de Armas, the exhibition brought together "cozy, bright, and colourful explorations of domestic space by four emerging artists" working with textiles, painting, installation, and social practice. In this piece, I explore ESCAPE / T…
Afterword: Dignity and indignities in the quest for conviviality
Afterword
Ethnographie ponctuelle
Pop-up ethnography (ethnographie ponctuelle) is a collection of ethnographic methods that can be used to capture social life at the register of spaces and times that do not belong to any particular social group or milieu. Pop-up ethnography is especially useful for studying urban public spaces, as well as time-limited events such as festivals or artistic interventions
Joy and Resistance in Carnival From the Ground Up
This piece draws on images and interviews featured in a 2024 outdoor photography exhibit, Carnival from the Ground Up, to explore how the joy of carnival in New Orleans can be read as resistance to the dominant social, political, and economic order. Although the creators of this exhibit and this piece have heard people speak of their carnival experiences with the word joy ever since they started documenting them, in 2025, they observed much more …
The flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans
Carnival in New Orleans is a complex, vibrant field of cultural production that generates a wealth of material culture. In the small-scale, countercultural 'new wave' of carnival 'krewes' or clubs that have proliferated since Hurricane Katrina, that material culture is often handmade. Framed by Daniel Miller's dialectical theory of material culture and drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning several carnival seasons, this paper unpacks what is…
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