Being a Parent in the Field
Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork
How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher's positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge?
Based on regionally and thematically diverse cases, this collection explores methodological, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork. The authors show how multiple familial relations and the presence of their children, partners, or other family members impact the immersion into the field and the construction of its boundaries.
Female and male authors from various career stages exemplify different research conditions, financial constraints, and family-career challenges which are decisive for academic success.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 7 - 8 -
On Being a Parent in the Field
Seiten 9 - 36 -
POSITIONALITY, SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE
Rethinking the Ethnographer
Seiten 39 - 60 -
Unexpected Resonances
Seiten 61 - 80 -
Circulating Family Images
Seiten 81 - 100 -
Returning to the Field as a Mother
Seiten 101 - 124 -
PRODUCING ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE
Entangled Family
Seiten 127 - 144 -
Falling in and out of Sync in Upland Laos
Seiten 145 - 164 -
"We Will Go on Vacation, while You Work"
Seiten 165 - 184 -
Bringing My Wife and Children to the Field
Seiten 185 - 206 -
Constructing the Field
On Being a Father in the Field
Seiten 209 - 222 -
Whisky, Kids and Sleepless Nights
Seiten 223 - 242 -
Capturing Sounds
Seiten 243 - 258 -
Shared Field, Divided Field
Seiten 259 - 278 -
Afterword
Seiten 279 - 286 -
Authors
Seiten 287 - 294
25 September 2020, 294 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4831-7
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