Speaking from a dissonant place: Labor, family, and knowledge production across ethnographic media

Abstract This article reflects on fieldwork, positionality, and knowledge production in the context of a long‐term study on labor and family in the Greek crisis. It reflects on dissonance as a potent epistemological and ethnographic theme, manifest in the ways myself and close interlocutors uncomfortably occupied the relations that made us legible in the field and social life, and in my own awkward treading between day‐to‐day reality and anthropological enquiry. I analyze the shifts precipitated in my research by centering more dissonant positionalities on work, gender, and sexuality, and the conundrums of translating these into ethnographic artifacts using text and film.