Going in, out, through: A dialogue around long skirts, fried chips, frozen shacks and the makeshifts of ethnography
(2016) EURA Conference — Location: Turin
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- We enter the field and have not a clue about the people standing in front of us. We have read about them – the people and spaces we have decided to ‘study’ –, and perhaps we have met them previously, but now things have changed. Set down in the mists of the field, we are now faced with the possibility of encounter: things can go wrong; people may not understand us and we may not understand them, and ethnography may suddenly cease to be an exciting exploration and turn into a painful and stressful endeavour. In its most basic form, positioning might be understood as the negotiation of this encounter: a fragile process characterised by unbalanced power, criss-crossed by all sorts of ethical implications. But at another, deeper level, positioning is first and foremost about questioning the meaning and relevance of that encounter. Namely: why have we decided to enter the field in the first place? Why have we done it here, with these people and spaces? Why, in other worlds, do we do ethnography and what do we aim to achieve with it?
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Rosa, E. c., & Lancione Michele. (2016). Going in, out, through: A dialogue around long skirts, fried chips, frozen shacks and the makeshifts of ethnography. EURA Conference, Turin. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/167693