9. Breakdowns for Breakthroughs: Using Anxiety and Embarrassment as Insightful Points for Understanding Fieldwork

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors ix
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part 1: Learning Languages in Ethnographic Research
7. 2. Language Learning as Research Rehearsal: Preparation for Multilinguistic Field Research in Morocco 17
8. 3. Emergent Collaborations: Field Assistants, Voice and Multilingualism 31
9. 4. Learning Language to Research Language in Two Tanzanian Secondary Schools 44
10. 5. ‘Demystifying’ Multilingual Fieldwork: On the Importance of Documenting and Reflecting on Language Learning in Ethnographic Research 57
11. 6. Dealing with Diglossia: Language Learning as Ethnography 70
12. 7. Language Learning and Unlearning in Ethnographic Fieldwork: ‘Speaking Asylum’ and ‘Doing Small Talk’ 83
13. 8. One Language, Two Systems: On Conducting Ethnographic Research Across the Taiwan Strait 97
14. Part 2: Using Languages in Ethnographic Research
15. 9. Breakdowns for Breakthroughs: Using Anxiety and Embarrassment as Insightful Points for Understanding Fieldwork 113
16. 10. Andean Ethnography and Language Learning: Reflecting on Identity Politics and Resistance Strategies of the Chilean Aymara 126
17. 11. How I Tried to Speak a Language Like a ‘Native’ and How this Influenced my Research 140
18. 12. ‘The Language is Mine. The Accent is Yours’: Doing Fieldwork in Angola 152
19. 13. Being ‘Proficient’ and ‘Competent’: On ‘Languaging’, Field Identity and Power/ Privilege Dynamics in Ethnographic Research 164
20. 14. Plurilingual Focus, Multilingual Space, Bilingual Set-up: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Two Catalonian Schools 177
21. Part 3: Institutional Contexts and Challenges
22. 15. Listening, Languages and the Nature of Knowledge and Evidence: What We Can Learn from Investigating ‘Listening’ in NGOs 193
23. 16. Becoming a Multilingual Researcher in Contemporary Academic Culture: Experiential Stories of (Not) Learning and Using Languages 207
24. 17. Conclusion 221
25. Index 238