1st Edition

The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World

208 Pages

by Routledge

208 Pages

by Routledge

208 Pages

by Routledge

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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... Read more

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 Maček

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