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Inclusive Ethnography
Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical
Edited by:
- Caitlin Procter - European University Institute
- Branwen Spector - University College London
May 2024 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
How can you do ethnographic field research in a safe way for you and the people you work with?
In this nuanced, candid book, researchers from across the globe discuss core challenges faced by ethnographers, reflecting on research from preparation to dissemination and how identity interacts with the realities of doing fieldwork.
Building on the work of the editors’ The New Ethnographer Project, which has been seeking to change the way ethnographic methods are approached and taught since 2018, the book:
- Promotes an inclusive approach that invites you to learn from the challenges faced by a diverse range of scholars.
- Addresses underexplored issues including emotional and physical safety in the face of ableism, homophobia and racism.
- Challenges assumptions of what it means to produce knowledge by conducting fieldwork.
Whether you’re an undergraduate student or an experienced researcher, this book will help you do fieldwork that is safer, healthier and more ethical.
Introduction
Isobel Gibbin
Chapter 1: Ethnographic skills to keep you sane
Elena Butti
Chapter 2: Safe and Ethical Ethnography: Looking Inwards
James Shires
Chapter 3: Cybersecurity and ethnography
Isabel Bredenbröker and Tajinder Kaur
Chapter 4: Giving, taking and receiving care: Disability and fieldwork
Elsemieke Van Osch and Sharon Louise Smith
Chapter 5: Reflexive ethnography in intimate spaces: Motherhood and care work in and outside of the field
Sandra Fernandez
Chapter 6: Fieldwork as a Coded-As-Black Woman
Shannon Philip
Chapter 7: Sex, sexuality and the ethnographer in the field
Hareem Khan
Chapter 8: Betraying Loyalty: Managing Dis/Trust as Ethical Feminist Praxis
Branwen Spector and Theodora Sutton
Chapter 9: Social Media as Method
Caitlin Procter
Chapter 10: Doing fieldwork in and on contexts of violence and instability
Emma Louise Backe and Alex Fitzpatrick
Chapter 11: Fieldwork and Feeled-Work: Addressing Mental Health in Ethnography
Anne E. Pfister
Chapter 12: Participatory Ethnographic Methods: Collaborative data production, analysis, and ethnographic representation
Ezgi Güler
Chapter 13: Going against the Grain in Writing Ethnography
Concluding recommendations for educators
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