Islam, A orcid.org/0000-0002-1983-9944 (2024) Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change. Ethnography, 25 (1). pp. 38-57. ISSN 1466-1381
Abstract
This paper revisits discussions about the pursuit of a singular location for ethnographic research. Citing challenges to the fixity of location, from circulation of people to the impossibility of containing digital worlds, scholars have proposed multi-sited, multi-scalar, multi-modal and multi-sensorial ethnographies, advocating that the researcher ‘follow the actor’. Drawing upon these innovations, this paper traces the affects generated in the process of following the actors as well as the consequent blurring of the division between the researcher and the researched so that they together constitute the category of ‘actors’ who co-produce the field. Using the example of an ethnography with young lower middle class women in Delhi, this paper deploys the researcher’s experience of dislocation or unexpected shuttling in the field to develop ‘dislocation’ as a methodological and analytical strategy for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change by embracing intersubjective relations, affects and partiality of knowledge in ethnographic research.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
Keywords: | affect, knowledge production, multi-sited, location, actor-centric, socio-economic change, marginalisation, ethnography |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2022 14:15 |
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2024 14:17 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14661381211058356 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183099 |