Doing research as a native : a guide for fieldwork in illiberal and repressive states / edited by Kira D. Jumet and Merouan Mekouar.
| Other author | Jumet, Kira D., editor. |
| Other author | Mekouar, Merouan, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xiv, 344 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "But where is your grandmother really from?" Negotiating ethnicity, gender, and belonging after war (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia) / Izabela Steflija -- Discomfort in the field : navigating family politics, the streets, and the state in Algeria (Algeria) / Hiba Zerrougui -- Doing research on the margins : fieldwork as a Pashtun in Pakistan (Pakistan) / Syed Shah and Farooq Yousaf -- Suspicion, surveillance, and survival in Kashmir (Indian-controlled Kashmir) / Mona Bhan -- Gender and societal expectations : a provisional guide / Kira D. Jumet and Merouan Mekouar -- Ethnicity as a liability : fieldwork as a mixed ethnic researcher in Ethiopia (Ethiopia) / Tewodros Zewdu Asfaw -- "Racial democracy" as a fallacy : art, research, and identity in Brazil (Brazil) / Guilherme Marcondes -- "Come back as a piece, not pieces" : risks, experiences, and practices of researching "sensitive" topics in one's home country : a note from northern Nigeria (Nigeria) / Musa Ibrahim -- Guardians of the archives : the bishop and the bureaucrat in socialist Cuba (Cuba) / Boris X. Martin Quijano -- Race, ethnicity, and belonging : a provisional guide / Kira D. Jumet and Merouan Mekouar -- Lacan in Vietnam : managing anxiety and minimizing surveillance / Vietnam) / Cuong Nguyen -- Nowhere to hide : an Egyptian researcher, between forced exile and arrest (Egypt) / Taqadum Al-Khatib -- Walking a fine line : institutional ambiguities and ethical dilemmas in Tajikistan (Tajikistan) / Dilafruz Nazarova and Shahnoza Nozimova -- What does one do with the nightmares? Are they ethnographic data or material for a psychoanalyst? (Nicaragua) / María José Díaz Reyes -- Legal threats and red lines : a provisional guide / Kira D. Jumet and Merouan Mekouar -- Impossible return? Vulnerability for Iranian dual-national researchers in the field (Iran) / Shirin Saeidi -- Questionable solicitations and regime restrictions : protecting family, colleagues, and oneself while researching in Nicaragua (Nicaragua) / Miguel González -- Navigating dangerous fields : storytelling, waiting, and ethnography without fieldnotes (Turkey) / Omer Ozcan -- Exploitation : a provisional guide / Kira D. Jumet and Merouan Mekouar. |
| Abstract | "When I started fieldwork for my PhD dissertation, I was fresh out of Edward Schatz's qualitative methods graduate seminar at the University of Toronto. The seminar was based on his edited volume Political Ethnography (Schatz 2009), which I devoured, but I have only recently grasped the book's importance in my discipline of political science. Political Ethnography signaled that questions of positionality were finally being taken seriously by political scientists, many years after their integration in fields such as anthropology, sociology, and geography. Around the same time, the late Lee Ann Fujii, whose 2018 book Interviewing in Social Science Research in many ways defined the direction of qualitative methods in political science, gave a job talk in my department. Mesmerized by her account of how local ties shaped mass-scale violence in Rwanda, I asked Fujii to join my doctoral committee. Looking back, I realize just how much these formative mentors influenced what I would see as my key responsibilities during my first fieldwork trips to the former Yugoslavia region in 2010 and 2011"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Doing research as a native New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024] 9780197699836 |
| LCCN | 2024032939 |
| ISBN | 9780197699812 |
| ISBN | 0197699812 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780197699805 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0197699804 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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