Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to our EASA Lisbon 2020 panel (p145) on facing challenges in fieldwork using the following link: https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2020/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/8410 <https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2020/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/8410>
Deadline for submissions: 20th January 2020
Very best,
Caitlin and Branwen
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P145 The New Ethnographer: facing challenges in contemporary fieldwork, near and far
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8410 <https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8410>
Convenors:
Caitlin Procter (European University Institute)
Branwen Spector (LSE)
Short abstract:
This panel addresses contemporary challenges ethnographers face in their research and asks how institutions can better support us. Researchers routinely experience precarity, harassment, impacts to mental and physical health, ethical dilemmas, among other challenges, regardless of fieldsite.
Long abstract:
When The New Ethnographer (TNE) launched in 2018, several decades had passed since the reflexive turn of the 1980s in which anthropologists were asked to reflect seriously on their subjectivities and how they impacted both field sites and interlocutors. Yet over a decade ago, Amy Pollard's 'Field of Screams' (2009) highlighted that ethnographers returning from fieldwork with different kinds of trauma was emerging as ubiquitous rather than exceptional. Precarity and harassment of anthropologists are often not addressed in journals, lectures, and fieldwork training, and such experiences or ways of managing them remain unknown to many prospective and even experienced fieldworkers. Importantly, these challenges do not just occur in far flung and so called 'exotic' locales where anthropologists are often encouraged to conduct their fieldwork, in any potential fieldsite, even at home. At TNE we believe that fieldwork provides unique challenges that researchers can be prepared for if not avoid entirely, and our institutions owe us sufficient training in how to approach these, not just limited to those conducting fieldwork in 'dangerous environments'. This panel aims to provide opportunities to discuss how anthropologists can envision and conduct more compassionate research practice for both themselves and the communities we work with. We will explore 1) harassment, exploitation, and vulnerability of researchers 2) prevention and treatment for unforeseen circumstances, greater empathy, and compassion for what it means to face challenges in ethnographic research 3) effective planning, risk assessment, and ethical clearance for both fieldworkers and research participants 4) new challenges in anthropological research.
Dr Caitlin Procter
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow I European University Institute
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