Abstract

This article explores the co-creation of an anthology of comics-based research on criminalisation processes through the concept of texturing, which encompasses different dimensions of engagement between the arts and ethnography. The authors consider the potential of texturing as a concept capable of analytically capturing the specificities of both the process of knowledge production and the outcome and representation of ethno-graphic collaboration. They draw on their perspectives as researchers, artists and collaborators, with specific regard to the criminalisation of poverty in Germany, as well as HIV criminalisation in Finland. The authors discuss how ethno-graphic collaboration textures their relationships with other actors in their research fields, the emotions and temporalities of their areas of research; and argue that ethno-graphic anthologies are well-suited to making visible the different textures of ethnographic data.