Fieldwork as Social Transformation: Place, Time, and Power in a Violent Moment
Fieldwork as Social Transformation: Place, Time, and Power in a Violent Moment
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DOI：
10.1080/14650045.2020.1717068
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发表时间：
2020-02-08
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Hallett, Miranda
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作者：
Brigden, Noelle;Hallett, Miranda
这个特殊的问题解决了在暴力环境中进行研究的反射性反省的迫切需要。为了做到这一点，它探讨了研究人员进行实地调查的地方的两个相互关联的维度：1）时间性; 2）权力。在当前的政治形势下，充分参与实地地点的这些方面已成为道德和安全方面的当务之急，也是方法上的当务之急。一旦我们将这两个维度置于分析的中心，就有必要超越这里/那里和内部/外部的二元关系，重新概念化实地工作。因此，这期特刊不仅将实地考察作为研究目的的一种手段，而且将其本身作为社会行动的一个机会。从各种方法论和认识论的立场，这个问题的贡献者建立在最近的女权主义工作，探索实地考察的地缘政治层面。总的来说，这些跨学科的文章主张重新想象田野工作作为一种想象力和变革的行为。
This special issue addresses the urgent need for reflexive introspection about conducting research in violent contexts. To do so, it explores two interrelated dimensions of the places where researchers conduct fieldwork: 1) temporality; and 2) power. In the current political moment, fully engaging with these dimensions of field sites has become an ethical and security imperative, as well as a methodological imperative. Once we put these two dimensions at the centre of analysis, the need to re-conceptualize fieldwork beyond the binaries of here/there and insider/outsider also becomes apparent. Thus, this special issue approaches fieldwork, not only as a means to a research end, but instead, as an opportunity for social action in itself. From a variety of methodological and epistemological positions, the contributors to this issue build on recent feminist work that explores fieldwork's geopolitical dimensions. Collectively, these interdisciplinary essays argue in favour of reimagining fieldwork as an imaginative and transformative act.