Author: Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen
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REKO AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO … WHAT?
REKO is an alternative local food network (Leipämaa-Leskinen, 2021). But what is REKO an alternative to? This is a question that has puzzled us since we started exploring REKO in 2013 and revisited it in 2023. In this blog text, we reflect on the question through our past and current ethnographic research. Hanna has been…
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ETHNOGRAPHERS GOING TO THE FIELD
What happens when a group of social science researchers go to the field to collect research data? In this blog post, I will reflect upon our ethnographic data collection trip to explore the organization of REKO network in Latvia. Our two-day field trip took us to the city of Valmiera in October 2024. Just like…