| Title | : | Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research |
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0742541207 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-01-16 |
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In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitate or block field research outcomes. The book asks questions that are crucial for all women engaged in field research. Do researchers enter their field site with a totally neutral identity? Can a researcher's own identity be at odds with how interviewees see her? Could a researcher be of the "wrong" gender, sexuality, nationality, or religion for those being studied? Must some of a researcher's identities be subsumed in certain research settings? How much identity disguise is possible before a researcher violates research ethics or loses herself? Together, these questions inform the book's themes of the centrality of gender, social and political danger, the negotiation of identities, and on-site ethics.
Focusing on ethnographic research across a wide range of disciplines and world regions, this deeply informed book presents prac
Editorial : If you take gender, fieldwork, and theory seriously, this is the book you want to read. Leading scholars across disciplines 'in the field' take us to the intersections of danger, identity, and ethics as we both live them in our world and explore them in our writing. These are academic crossroads at their creative best. (Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame)
A must-read for all field researchers! In this impressive volume, top scholars across disciplines and working around the globe take on thorny issues of morality, physical peril, danger to informants, and the lack of credibility that women face as field researchers. Their insights are fresh and compelling. In work that is brave but not arrogant, they set a new standard for field research in the twenty-first century. (Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh; author of Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement)
This book is full of fascinating stories seldom told about women, in their roles as
Purchasing one would have been sufficient.. Don't let the classification dictate your interest I promise you, you will not be disappointed.. It's an honest book.
Edwards tells how a 'Christian Socialist' country that had been pursuing fashionable, 'industrial nationalization, redistribution of income, wealth, and land,' even before the shock treatment of Salvador Allende began in 1970, instead ended up with 'the coercive hand of the statesteadily diminishedprivate propertyrestored and extended, and personal rights of self-determination, free association, and voluntary contractestablished and protected in the law.'
Literally, a case of 'that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.' I know from my own experiences of about a decade ago just how unpalatable that is to people with even moderate leftish political views. He started dressing nicer for me instead of the work clothes all the time and he makes a point to take me out on dates. This book is no exception.
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