The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2023
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-1-032-33381-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence and provides a forum for field-based researchers to tell their stories. Increasingly novice and seasoned ethnographers alike, whether by choice or chance, are working in situations where multidimensional forms of violence, conflict and war are facets of everyday life. The volume engages with the methodological and ethical issues involved and features a range of expressive writings that reveal personal consequences and dilemmas. The contributors use their emotions, their scars, outrage and sadness alongside their hopes and resilience to give voice to that which is often silenced, to make visible the entanglements of fieldwork and its lingering vulnerabilities. The book brings to the fore the lived experiences of researchers and their interlocutors alike with the hope of fostering communities of care. It will be valuable reading for anthropologists and those from other disciplines who are embarking on ethnographic fieldwork and conducting qualitative empirical research.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-33381-6 (9781032333816)
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Nerina Weiss | Erella Grassiani | Linda Green
The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World
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Nerina Weiss | Erella Grassiani | Linda Green
The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World
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1st Edition
Routledge
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Nerina Weiss | Erella Grassiani | Linda Green
The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World
E-Book
02/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€55.49
Available for download
Persons
Nerina Weiss is Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Oslo, Norway.
Erella Grassiani is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Linda Green is Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, USA.
Erella Grassiani is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Linda Green is Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, USA.
Content
1 Entanglements of fieldwork: an introduction-Nerina Weiss; 2 Unspeakable: silences and silencing around fieldwork amid violence-Samira Marty; 3 Drawing on your inner anthropologist: some tools for violent and difficult ethnographic fields-Ivana Macek 4 A cautionary and hopeful tale about experiencing, thinking with, writing through, reflecting on, and teaching the emotional in ethnographic fieldwork-Jastinder Kaur; 5 The fieldwork of never alone: reframing access as relationships of care-Cari Tusing; 6 'You are one of us', but I wasn't: managing expectations and emotions when studying powerful security actors-Erella Grassiani; 7 Conversations about violence during fieldwork in Colombia-Colleen Alena O'Brien; 8 Staying sane and safe in Israel/Palestine: a foreign researcher's reflections on fieldwork across boundaries-Andreas Hackl; 9 Involved and detached: emotional management in fieldwork-Anna Hedlund and Steven Sampson; 10 On Catalina's silence and the things about her I still do not know how to say-Simone Toji; 11 Side effects: how fieldwork and ethnography helped me reclaim my life-Molly Hurley Depret; 12 Violent experiences, violent practices: caring and silence in anthropology-Lena Gross; 13 Hospitality and violence: writing for irresolution-Aya Musmar and Ann-Christin Zuntz; 14 Getting closer to the skin: writing as intensity, writing as feeling-Omer Aijazi; 15 Cherry blossoms and grilled lamb-Eva van Roekel Cordiviola; 16 Making common cause: Ethics as politics, anthropology as praxis: an afterword-Linda Green