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Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research

Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research

Glebbeek, Marie-Louise
Huggins, Martha K.

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0742541193
ISBN13: 9780742541191
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jan 16 2009
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitate or block field research outcomes. The book asks questions that are crucial for all women engaged in field research. Do researchers enter their field site with a totally neutral identity? Can a researcher's own identity be at odds with how interviewees see her? Could a researcher be of the wrong gender, sexuality, nationality, or religion for those being studied? Must some of a researcher's identities be subsumed in certain research settings? How much identity disguise is possible before a researcher violates research ethics or loses herself? Together, these questions inform the book's themes of the centrality of gender, social and political danger, the negotiation of identities, and on-site ethics.

Focusing on ethnographic research across a wide range of disciplines and world regions, this deeply informed book presents practical to-dos and technical research strategies. In addition, it offers unique illustrations of how the political, geographic, and organizational realities of field sites shape identity negotiations and research outcomes. Understanding these dynamics, the authors show, is key to surviving the ethnographic field.

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