Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography

Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography edited by Thomas Stodulka, Samia Dinkelaker, Ferdiansyah Thajib.

This book illustrates the role of researchers’ affects and emotions in understanding and making sense of the phenomena they study during ethnographic fieldwork. Whatever methods ethnographers apply during field research, however close they get to their informants and no matter how involved or detach...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Stodulka, Thomas (Editor), Dinkelaker, Samia (Editor), Thajib, Ferdiansyah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Emotions.
Psychology.
Psychology, Applied.
Ethnology.
Critical theory.
Cross-cultural psychology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography – Advancing Affective Scholarship
  • Part I: Role Conflicts and Aftermaths
  • Role Conflicts and Aftermaths – Introduction
  • Making Sense of (Humanitarian) Emotions in Ethnography with Vulnerable Childhood: The Case of Bangkok Slum Children
  • Emotional Vulnerability and Ethnographic Understanding: A Collaborative Research Project in a Women’s Shelter
  • Conflicted Emotions: Learning about Uchawi
  • Part II: Reciprocity in Research Relationships
  • Reciprocity in Research Relationships – Introduction
  • Uneasy Thankfulness and the Dilemma of Balancing Partiality in Surrogacy Research
  • Exchange of Intangible Gifts? Reflections on Research Relationships When ‘Studying up’
  • Reciprocity in Research Relationships: Learning from Imbalances
  • Reciprocity Reconsidered: Towards a Research Ethic of Economic Participation
  • Part III: Intimacy and Care in the Field
  • Intimacy and Care in the Field – Introduction
  • Embodying Ineffable Concepts: Empathic Intimacy as a Tool for Insight
  • Sexuality and Emotions Situated in Time and Space
  • ‘Normality’ Revisited – Fieldwork and Family
  • Part IV: Dealing with Illness and Dying
  • Dealing with Illness and Dying – Introduction
  • Standing at the Doorstep: Affective Encounters in Research on Death and Dying
  • Dancing Through the Perfect Storm: Encountering Illness and Death in the Field and Beyond
  • From Therapy to Fieldwork: Reflecting the Experiences of a Therapist and Anthropologist when Researching Substitutional Drugs And Their Users
  • Part V: Failing and Attuning in the Field
  • Failing and Attuning in the Field – Introduction
  • How to be a Good Disciple (to a Martial Arts Master) – Critical Reflections on Participation and Apprenticeship in Indonesian Pencak Silat Schools
  • The Anxieties of a Changing Sense of Place: A Reflection on Field Encounters at Home
  • Attuning Engagement: Methodological and Affective Dimensions of a Failed Collaborative Research Project in Timor-Leste
  • Part VI: Unpacking Emotion Regimes in Teaching and Fieldwork
  • Unpacking Emotion Regimes in Teaching and Fieldwork – Introduction
  • Vulnerability in the Field: Emotions, Experiences and Encounters with Ghosts and Spirits
  • ‘How did it feel for you?’ Teaching and Learning (by) Emotional Reflexivity in an Undergraduate Fieldwork Training
  • Fieldwork Emotions: Embedded Across Cultures, Shared, Repressed or Subconscious
  • Afterword: A return to the story.

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