Ethnographic postcards: The Mean Girl

This text was written around six months after finishing ethnographic fieldwork at an after-school club in Helsinki. I was working on a journal article based on my fieldwork data and spending a lot of time thinking about how the children in the study interacted with each other and the world around them. Overall, my fieldwork experience was wonderful, but there were several unsettling moments and characters that continue to play on my mind, leaving me with questions about my own role.