Fabienne Braukmann / Michaela Haug / Katja Metzmacher / Rosalie Stolz (eds.)

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

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

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25 September 2020, 294 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4831-7

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»›Being a Parent in the Field‹ offers an important reminder and therefore, is a welcomed contribution to the methodological and epistemological discussions around the making of ethnography, one that should be read in ethnographic methods courses.«
Konstanze N'Guessan, https://allegralaboratory.net, 17.07.2021

»The edited volume is an interesting reading for anyone interested in ethnographic research methodology. It is particularly useful for anyone planning to conduct accompanied fieldwork.
Since the book is particularly clearly written, it can be recommended not only to researchers but also to students.«
Mari Korpela, Anthropos, 116 (2021)

»[The book] is not only a must-read for young scholars, to prepare them for potential future fieldwork scenarios, but it also contributes to the disciplines joint effort to pave the way for smoother and more flexible life and research styles.«
Anna-Maria Walter (University of Oulu, Finland), Allegra Lab, 21.05.2021

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Author(s): Fabienne Braukmann / Michaela Haug / Katja Metzmacher / Rosalie Stolz (eds.)
Book title: Being a Parent in the Field Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Pages: 294
Features: kart., Dispersionsbindung, 10 SW-Abbildungen, 6 Farbabbildungen

ISBN: 978-3-8376-4831-7
DOI: 10.14361/9783839448311
Commodity Group: 1752
BIC-Code: JHMC JHBK
BISAC-Code: SOC002010 SOC026010
THEMA-Code: JHMC JHBK

Release date: 25 September 2020
Edition
Topics: Gesellschaft, Familie, Wissenschaft
Readership: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, European Ethnology, Social Sciences, Humanities, Cultural Studies, Area Studies, Geography, Gender Studies

Keywords/Tags: Accompanied Fieldwork, Children, Ethnography, Family, Methodology, Society, Science, Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Family, Gender Studies