ethnographic fieldwork has documented the importance of building relationships during fieldwork, both short-lived and long-term. Regardless of the time spent with informants, establishing rapport is crucial for researchers to obtain any amount of intimate and
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“I Showed You What I Thought Was Appropriate”
Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnographic Research and the Performativity of Dutch Gang Life
Robert A. Roks
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 175–191 (17 total)
Introduction
Ethnographies of Private Security
Erella Grassiani and Tessa Diphoorn
sovereignty, citizenship, belonging, and exclusion. In this section, we extend this focus by highlighting the innovative insights and advantages of this growing anthropological scope. For decades, the method of ethnographic fieldwork defined the discipline of
Times of Violence
The Shifting Temporalities of Long-Term Ethnographic Engagement with Burundi
Simon Turner
past, the present, and the future. In the first case, I explore how narratives about genocidal violence changed in the refugee camps from when Liisa Malkki did her fieldwork to when I did mine more than a decade later. In the second case, I follow two
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 143–159 (17 total)
Pac'Stão versus the City of Police
Contentious Activism Facing Megaprojects, Authoritarianism, and Violence
Einar Braathen
-hop circle Pac'Stão, which alludes to PAC and a violent territory). I conducted the main fieldwork that underlies this article in 2011 and 2012 (see Braathen et al. 2013 ). While I am a male, white, and foreign political scientist, I was assisted in the
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 145–164 (20 total)
“What about Last Time?”
Exploring Potentiality in Danish Young Women's Violent Conflicts
Ann-Karina Henriksen
Violence shapes the everyday life of millions of people and has a profound impact on social relations and everyday dispositions. Ethnographic fieldwork, characterized by extended submersion in a social field, has proven valuable for gaining
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 160–174 (15 total)
Racialized Governance
The Production and Destruction of Secure Spaces in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Alexandre Magalhães
fieldworks in Vila Autódromo, as well as other areas of Rio de Janeiro, conducted separately by both authors in the period 2008–2016. Alexandre Magalhães lived in Rio during this period and followed the urban development projects ushered in by the 2014 FIFA
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 165–182 (18 total)
Philippine Prison Marriages
The Politics of Kinship and Women's Composite Agency
Sif Lehman Jensen
and to what extent it can help us understand the women's choice of marriage. Organization and Relational Entanglements of Prison Marriages I first became acquainted with this group of women during previous fieldwork among women political
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 18–33 (16 total)
Vigilance, Knowledge, and De/colonization
Protesting While Latin@ in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Catherine Whittaker and Eveline Dürr
This article shows how vigilance against racism and coloniality in the US-Mexico borderlands produces knowledge, highlighting the decolonizing potential of their dynamic entanglement. Before the Black Lives Matter protests against police violence across the United States in late May 2020, many Latin@s in San Diego, California, already anticipated racial discrimination and violence in light of growing anti-migration sentiment. Those Latin@s who took part in the protests often also protested border patrol violence. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, we argue that the vigilance of Latin@s, who were further racialized as “immigrants” through their protest participation, produced knowledge about ongoing racism and coloniality in San Diego. We propose theorizing vigilance as having both the potential to uphold colonialist structures and to undermine these.
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- Research Article
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- 156–171 (15 total)
Embodied Agency
Creating Room for Maneuver through Dance in Palestine
Sara Christophersen
In this article I explore the experiences of three dance artists living and working in Palestine through the concept of “embodied agency.” Based on fieldwork in Palestine and a decade of professional engagement as a dancer and choreographer with the Palestinian dancing community, I examine how the body—through the practice of dance—creates movement in the artists’ lives. Th e article highlights how embodied and expressive spaces of dance expand the artists’ possibilities and room for maneuver. I argue that in the context of protracted occupation, like Palestine, where individuals have little possibility to impact their situation, zooming into the body can be a powerful way to identify spaces where it is possible to have influence on oneself and others.
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- Research Article
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- 227–241 (14 total)
Introduction
The Longitudinal Ethnography of Violence
Lidewyde H. Berckmoes, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, and Dennis Rodgers
plus years that had elapsed between the two instances of ethnographic fieldworks. Another aim can be to show how changes in the world, either internal or external, might have influenced the studied research site. An example is Buroway's ( 1979 ) own
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 96–106 (11 total)