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42 Ethnography

  • Emily Billo und Kelsey Hanrahan
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Abstract

Critical human geographers embraced ethnography as part of broader critiques of positivist and masculinist knowledge production and renewed attention to qualitative methods in social science. In this chapter, we examine the ongoing work of engaging with ethnography as a methodology toward critical knowledge production. Toward these ends, we hone in on ethnography as inherently embodied in the ways it brings our bodyminds into often intensive, intimate, proximate relations, while also situating ethnography within its masculinist, colonialist, and Eurocentric foundations. We trace the development of reflexivity and radical vulnerability, engagement with emotions in ethnographic fieldwork, and what it means to carefully build researcher–participant relationships, as well as practice collaborative and scholar-activist work. We demonstrate that these are embodied practices developed and engaged with by feminist and decolonial geographers that contribute to ethnographic possibility.

Abstract

Critical human geographers embraced ethnography as part of broader critiques of positivist and masculinist knowledge production and renewed attention to qualitative methods in social science. In this chapter, we examine the ongoing work of engaging with ethnography as a methodology toward critical knowledge production. Toward these ends, we hone in on ethnography as inherently embodied in the ways it brings our bodyminds into often intensive, intimate, proximate relations, while also situating ethnography within its masculinist, colonialist, and Eurocentric foundations. We trace the development of reflexivity and radical vulnerability, engagement with emotions in ethnographic fieldwork, and what it means to carefully build researcher–participant relationships, as well as practice collaborative and scholar-activist work. We demonstrate that these are embodied practices developed and engaged with by feminist and decolonial geographers that contribute to ethnographic possibility.

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