Fieldwork, Identities, and Intersectionality: Negotiating Gender, Race, Class, Religion, Nationality, and Age in the Research Field Abroad: Editors' Introduction
Fieldwork, Identities, and Intersectionality: Negotiating Gender, Race, Class, Religion, Nationality, and Age in the Research Field Abroad: Editors' Introduction
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实地考察、身份和交叉性：国外研究领域中性别、种族、阶级、宗教、国籍和年龄的谈判：编辑简介
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10.1017/s104909650909057x
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2009
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Meg E. Rincker
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作者：
Candice D. Ortbals;Meg E. Rincker
在国外进行过研究的政治科学家既感到兴奋，又感到非常失望。会见和利用知识渊博、反应灵敏的受访者的帮助可能是令人兴奋的;然而，取消采访、疾病和缺乏资金会抑制社会科学事业。在这次研讨会上，我们讨论了实地研究的螺母和螺栓，我们探讨了研究人员的个人身份（性别，种族，阶级，宗教，国籍和年龄）和他们的研究背景的相互作用所产生的限制和机会。我们认为，在实地考察之前接受的大多数培训很少关注离开家一年的个人后果，试图融入另一种文化，并面对基于身份的（错误）看法。正如上面的引文所示，研讨会希望展示一个研究者如何在野外工作的未知沃茨中勇敢地前进，特别是与一个人的身份有关的互动。虽然我们承认，没有准备将完全消除令人失望的日子在外地和身份的误解，我们鼓励新的领域研究人员和研究生要知道，访问国外数据的过程是一个非常个人的。研讨会的贡献者是比较研究者，主要是助理教授和最近获得终身教授职位的职业阶段，他们曾在阿根廷、孟加拉国、玻利维亚、巴西、哥伦比亚、哥斯达黎加、古巴、厄瓜多尔、埃塞俄比亚、法国、印度、牙买加、日本、肯尼亚、墨西哥、莫桑比克、秘鲁、波兰、俄罗斯、西班牙、乌拉圭和委内瑞拉进行过研究。
Political scientists who have conducted research abroad experience excitement as well as great disappointment. Meeting and utilizing the help of knowledgeable, responsive interviewees can be exhilarating; yet a cancelled interview, illness, and lack of funds dampens the social scientific enterprise. In this symposium, we discuss the nuts and bolts of field research and we explore the constraints and opportunities that arise from the interaction of researchers' personal identities (gender, race, class, religion, nationality, and age) and their research context. We contend that most training received before fieldwork focuses little, if at all, on the personal consequences of leaving one's home for a year, trying to integrate into another culture, and facing (mis)perceptions based on one's identity. As the quotations above indicate, the symposium hopes to demonstrate how a researcher can be gutsy in the uncharted waters of fieldwork, especially with interactions pertaining to one's identities. Although we acknowledge that no preparation will entirely eradicate disappointing days in the field and misperceptions of identity, we encourage new field researchers and graduate students to be aware that the process of accessing data abroad is an intensely personal one. The symposium contributors are comparativists, mainly at the career stages of assistant professor and recently tenured professor, who have researched in Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Russia, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.