Red stamps and green tea: fieldwork negotiations and dilemmas in the Sino‐Vietnamese borderlands
Red stamps and green tea: fieldwork negotiations and dilemmas in the Sino‐Vietnamese borderlands
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红邮票与绿茶：中越边境的田野谈判与困境
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2013
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S. Turner
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S. Turner
东南亚山地内的社会主义空间居住着7000多万人，他们属于地理上分散和政治上支离破碎的少数民族人口。长期以来，国家当局一直将这些高地边缘地区视为边疆地区，在这些地区，“无关紧要的人”落后于国家标准。随着时间的推移，中国和越南国家通过一系列“发展”计划和政治经济战略努力封闭这些空间。在这里进行定性的社会科学研究被一系列具体的挑战(红章)、两难境地和谈判(绿茶)所突显。在经济自由化与中央集权和威权的政治结构交织在一起的当代背景下，我探索了我是如何谈判和操纵获得少数民族声音的。具体地说，我将重点放在中越边境地区的实地考察工作上，以回答两个核心问题。首先，在这些社会主义领域，研究人员如何谈判才能接触到仍被中央政府误解的边缘化群体？第二，跨文化田野调查在这些领域提出的最紧迫的伦理问题是什么？这些问题可以如何解决？在辩论这些伦理和方法挑战的同时，我思考了看门人的众多角色，对受访者福祉的担忧，以及自我审查的重要性。
The socialist spaces within the upland Southeast Asian Massif are home to over 70 million people belonging to geographically dispersed and politically fragmented ethnic minority populations. State authorities have long considered these upland margins as frontier regions where ‘inconsequential peoples’ lag behind national standards. Over time, the Chinese and Vietnamese states have worked to enclose these spaces through a range of ‘development’ programmes and politico-economic strategies. Undertaking qualitative social science research here is underscored by a specific set of challenges (red stamps), dilemmas and negotiations (green tea). In a contemporary context that interweaves economic liberalisation with centralised and authoritarian political structures, I explore how I have negotiated and manoeuvred access to ethnic minority voices. Specifically, I focus on fieldwork endeavours in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands to answer two core questions. First, in these socialist arenas, how can researchers negotiate access to still-marginalised groups misunderstood by the central state? And second, what are the most pressing ethical questions raised by cross-cultural fieldwork in these spaces and how might these be addressed? While debating these ethical and methodological challenges, I reflect upon the numerous roles of gatekeepers, concerns over the well-being of interviewees and the importance of self-censorship.