The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World
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The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World

  1. 198 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Entanglements of fieldwork: An introduction
  10. 2 Unspeakable: Silences and silencing around fieldwork amid violence
  11. 3 Drawing on your inner anthropologist: Some tools for violent and difficult ethnographic fields
  12. 4 A cautionary and hopeful tale about experiencing, thinking with, writing through, reflecting on, and teaching the emotional in ethnographic fieldwork
  13. 5 The fieldwork of never alone: Reframing access as relationships of care
  14. 6 ‘You are one of us’, but I wasn’t: Managing expectations and emotions when studying powerful security actors
  15. 7 Conversations about violence during fieldwork in Colombia
  16. 8 Staying sane and safe in Israel/Palestine: A foreign researcher’s reflections on fieldwork across boundaries
  17. 9 Involved and detached: Emotional management in fieldwork
  18. 10 On Catalina’s silence and the things about her I still do not know how to say
  19. 11 Side effects: How fieldwork and ethnography helped me reclaim my life
  20. 12 Violent experiences, violent practices: Caring and silence in anthropology
  21. 13 Hospitality and violence: Writing for irresolution
  22. 14 Getting closer to the skin: Writing as intensity, writing as feeling
  23. 15 Cherry blossoms and grilled lamb: An ethnographic short story
  24. 16 Making common cause: Ethics as politics, anthropology as praxis: An afterword
  25. Index