摘要：Interest in the lived mundane practices and embodied experience of subjects
has seen a tremendous upsurge in human geography in the past years. With its
focus on social interaction and concern with subjects' lifeworlds,
ethnography suggests itself as a suitable methodological approach to match
this interest. Against the lack of a sustained debate in German-speaking
human geography, this special issue seeks to illustrate the potential of
ethnography for different conceptual approaches with the help of empirical
examples. It is the task of this editorial to review key issues associated
with ethnographic research. In so doing, it does not equate ethnography with
the method of participant observation, but rather understands it as a
methodology with specific implications for the responsibility and position
of the researcher, the interpretation of the material and the construction
of a narrative.
