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Inclusive ethnography : making fieldwork safer, healthier and more ethical
No full textPublished: 23 May 2024How can you do ethnographic field research in a safe way for you and the people you work with? In this nuanced, candid book, researchers from across the globe discuss core challenges faced by ethnographers, reflecting on research from preparation to dissemination and how identity interacts with the realities of doing fieldwork.-- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ethnographic skills to keep you sane -- Chapter 2: Safe and Ethical Ethnography: Looking Inwards -- Chapter 3: Cybersecurity and ethnography -- Chapter 4: Giving, taking and receiving care: Disability and fieldwork -- Chapter 5: Reflexive ethnography in intimate spaces: Motherhood and care work in and outside of the field -- Chapter 6: Fieldwork as a Coded-As-Black Woman -- Chapter 7: Sex, sexuality and the ethnographer in the field -- Chapter 8: Betraying Loyalty: Managing Dis/Trust as Ethical Feminist Praxis -- Chapter 9: Social Media as Method -- Chapter 10: Doing fieldwork in and on contexts of violence and instability -- Chapter 11: Fieldwork and Feeled-Work: Addressing Mental Health in Ethnography -- Chapter 12: Participatory Ethnographic Methods: Collaborative data production, analysis, and ethnographic representation -- Chapter 13: Going against the Grain in Writing Ethnography -- Concluding recommendations for educator
Going against the grain in writing ethnography
No full textSome institutional and disciplinary pressures placed on early career ethnographers conflict with authoring ethically and politically committed works. Drawing on the author’s personal experience in writing an ethnographic dissertation, the chapter illustrates the tension between pondering the ethics and politics of ethnographic representation and neoliberal and objectivist expectations. It then explains how these unfitting structural demands impact ethnographic writing and describes a number of alternative writing practices. They include ethical and critical self-reflexivity, personally and politically engaged writing, representation of complexity of social worlds and formation of supportive writing communities. These strategies not only generates ethically and politically responsible representation but also inspires critical analysis
Tindering in the Field: Dating Apps, Ethnography, and Discomfort
Get PDFThis article explores the ethical and safety implications of using dating apps as a method in ethnographic research. Drawing on my experience with this approach whilst conducting fieldwork across social and physical boundaries in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, I explore the discomforts that arise in the process of using platforms associated with sex and romance. Attending to my own discomforts as well as those of my professional peers and my interlocutors, I make recommendations for an ethical approach to the use of dating apps as a networking tool. In the process I critique the nature of professionalism in anthropology, locating it in patriarchal and orientalist western values. I then unpack the unique affordances of and discourses around safety and dating app use, outlining where anthropologists can benefit from including these in their ethnographic practice
Uneven ground: an ethnographic study of Palestinian and settler mobility in the occupied Palestinian West Bank
Get PDFThis thesis looks at the experiences of and controls over mobility among Palestinian refugees (in Dheishe refugee camp) and Israeli settlers (in Efrat settlement) in the south-central region of the Occupied West Bank. It explores how road, internet, and human networks serve as infrastructures through which the safe mobility of these groups and their respective states is generated, limited, and manipulated. I emphasise the “slipperiness” (Edwards 2003: 2) of infrastructure to show how the flows of people, goods, and ideas are differentially applied to different groups in a colonial setting. I begin by exploring the notion of the multi-sited fieldsite, extending the concept across the discontinuous physical spaces of the West Bank. I then extend this notion of discontinuity to the ways I mobilised my positionality as a researcher in order to gain access and establish relationships among settlers and Palestinians. By drawing attention to the ways that positionality can be differentially rendered according to who we work with, I highlight how this impacts the wellbeing of the researcher and therefore informs the anthropological knowledge it generates. I contextualise the historical mobilities of Jews and consequently Palestinians that have shaped the region, centring each group’s relation to and expression of their right of return. In tracing these histories I highlight the ways that these rights are expressed through visible and invisible means, reflected in the “underneath-ness” and invisibility of infrastructures themselves. I show how Zionist ideologies have informed the occupying Israeli state’s design and use of infrastructures in the West Bank to reflect its aims of expansion, segregation, and erasure. Infrastructures replicate the political orders from which they emerge. In exploring road infrastructures, I show how separate and shared spaces enable Palestinians and Israelis to impact each other’s mobility. Internet infrastructures offer opportunities for creative resistance and regional mobility. Refugees and settlers themselves function as human infrastructures that perpetuate each group as it challenges the other, while still facilitating individual and group mobility
Tindering in the Field: Dating Apps, Ethnography, and Discomfort
Get PDFThis article explores the ethical and safety implications of using dating apps as a method in ethnographic research. Drawing on my experience with this approach whilst conducting fieldwork across social and physical boundaries in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, I explore the discomforts that arise in the process of using platforms associated with sex and romance. Attending to my own discomforts as well as those of my professional peers and my interlocutors, I make recommendations for an ethical approach to the use of dating apps as a networking tool. In the process I critique the nature of professionalism in anthropology, locating it in patriarchal and orientalist western values. I then unpack the unique affordances of and discourses around safety and dating app use, outlining where anthropologists can benefit from including these in their ethnographic practice
Uneven ground: an ethnographic study of Palestinian and settler mobility in the occupied Palestinian West Bank
Get PDFThis thesis looks at the experiences of and controls over mobility among Palestinian refugees (in Dheishe refugee camp) and Israeli settlers (in Efrat settlement) in the south-central region of the Occupied West Bank. It explores how road, internet, and human networks serve as infrastructures through which the safe mobility of these groups and their respective states is generated, limited, and manipulated. I emphasise the “slipperiness” (Edwards 2003: 2) of infrastructure to show how the flows of people, goods, and ideas are differentially applied to different groups in a colonial setting. I begin by exploring the notion of the multi-sited fieldsite, extending the concept across the discontinuous physical spaces of the West Bank. I then extend this notion of discontinuity to the ways I mobilised my positionality as a researcher in order to gain access and establish relationships among settlers and Palestinians. By drawing attention to the ways that positionality can be differentially rendered according to who we work with, I highlight how this impacts the wellbeing of the researcher and therefore informs the anthropological knowledge it generates. I contextualise the historical mobilities of Jews and consequently Palestinians that have shaped the region, centring each group’s relation to and expression of their right of return. In tracing these histories I highlight the ways that these rights are expressed through visible and invisible means, reflected in the “underneath-ness” and invisibility of infrastructures themselves. I show how Zionist ideologies have informed the occupying Israeli state’s design and use of infrastructures in the West Bank to reflect its aims of expansion, segregation, and erasure. Infrastructures replicate the political orders from which they emerge. In exploring road infrastructures, I show how separate and shared spaces enable Palestinians and Israelis to impact each other’s mobility. Internet infrastructures offer opportunities for creative resistance and regional mobility. Refugees and settlers themselves function as human infrastructures that perpetuate each group as it challenges the other, while still facilitating individual and group mobility
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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