Autoethnography and Emotion as Intellectual Resources
Autoethnography and Emotion as Intellectual Resources
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作为智力资源的自我民族志和情感
DOI：
10.1177/1077800411428942
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发表时间：
2011
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2
通讯作者：
Y. Jewkes
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作者：
Y. Jewkes
与许多其他社会科学相比，犯罪学在很大程度上抵制了定性调查具有自我民族志维度的概念，并对民族志实地工作者在权力，权威，脆弱性和绝望的差异指数比大多数人更敏锐地感受到的环境中研究被污名化和/或脆弱的“他人”所需的情感投资保持沉默。在犯罪学中，情感出现在关于公众情绪、民粹主义惩罚和犯罪背后的情感动机的讨论中，但很少作为一个透镜，通过它人们可以更好地理解研究过程。本文考察了该领域的现状，讨论了少数民族志学者的工作，他们承认监狱研究的情感内容，并讲述了一个改变作者方法论和理论取向的个人研究遭遇的故事。它认为，更坦率地承认主客体角色的趋同并不一定会威胁到社会科学的有效性，或者至少“这是一种有相应收益的威胁”。
In contrast to many other social sciences, criminology has largely resisted the notion that qualitative inquiry has autoethnographic dimensions and remained quiet on the subject of the emotional investment required of ethnographic fieldworkers studying stigmatized and/or vulnerable “others” in settings where differential indices of power, authority, vulnerability, and despair are felt more keenly than most. Emotion appears in criminology in discussions about public sentiments, populist punitiveness, and the emotional motivations behind offending but rarely features as a lens through which one might better understand the process of doing research. This article examines the state of the field, discusses the work of a small minority of ethnographers who acknowledge the emotional content of prison studies, and tells the story of a personal research encounter that changed the author’s methodological and theoretical orientation. It argues that a more frank acknowledgment of the convergence of subject-object roles does not necessarily threaten the validity of social science, or at least, “it is a threat with a corresponding gain.”