The ethnography of state terror is “high risk” research and there are real personal dangers for anyone who conducts fieldwork on this issue. Managing such dangers has particularly become an issue for those conducting primary research with perpetrators of state terror—the “rank and file” who apply the electric cattle prods and pull the triggers—and all of the researchers I know who have taken this path have been threatened in one form or another. Th is article reviews the core literature and latest developments in managing the physical dangers inherent in the ethnography of political violence and state terror, particularly fieldwork or primary research with the actual perpetrators themselves, makes practical recommendations for managing such dangers, and presents some ideas for developing risk management plans or protocols for researcher survival in perilous field sites.
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Managing Danger in Fieldwork with Perpetrators of Political Violence and State Terror
Jeffrey A. Sluka
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 109–124 (16 total)
Methods, Interpretation, and Ethics in the Study of White Supremacist Perpetrators
Kathleen M. Blee
Interpretive and ethical frameworks circumscribe how we study the perpetrators of politically motivated violence against civilian populations. This article revisits the author’s studies of two eras of white supremacism in the United States, the 1920s and 1980s–1990s, to examine how these were affected by four frameworks of inquiry: the assumption of agency, the allure of the extraordinary, the tendency to categorical analysis, and the presumption of net benefit. It concludes with suggestions on how scholars can avoid the limitations of these frameworks.
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 9–22 (14 total)
Times of Violence
The Shifting Temporalities of Long-Term Ethnographic Engagement with Burundi
Simon Turner
For more than two decades I have been engaged with trying to understand the violent conflicts in Burundi and how Burundians live with and through violence. How do they experience violence, make sense of it, talk about it, try to predict it, and
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 143–159 (17 total)
Love and Violence
Sartre and the Ethics of Need
Katharine Wolfe
Love and Violence: Sartre and the Ethics of Need It could be argued that Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason substitutes Being and Nothingness' s ontological account of interpersonal violence, arising from bad faith, for a
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 37–56 (20 total)
Violence and Identification
Everyday Ethnic Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Torsten Kolind
. This came as a surprise to me during my fieldwork, and it also stands in opposition to structurally inspired anthropological analyses of war and violence. Such analyses have primarily focused on the inherent potential of violence and war to create
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 181–200 (20 total)
On Violence, Race, and Social Theory
Thinking with Wacquant and Du Bois
Ali Meghji
In this article, I offer an engagement with Wacquant's checkerboard of ethnoracial violence . Colleagues of mine will know that Wacquant's scholarship has influenced the way I think about racialization and racism in two principal ways. First
Counter-Violence and Islamic Terrorism
Is Liberation without Freedom Possible?
Maria Russo
ambiguous and almost apparently contradictory thoughts (in particular concerning the theme of violence), but also because Sartre himself would have invited us to proceed beyond his proposal, which, moreover, was made before he could deliver his final legacy
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–98 (19 total)
Ordinary Violence, Emotion, Information, and Anxiety
Some Themes in Recent Work on Colonial Violence
William Palmer
The study of violence has increasingly emerged as an intriguing subject for historical inquiry. Resulting largely from the “cultural turn” of the 1970s and 1980s, many historians moved away from traditional narratives of political, diplomatic, and
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 69–89 (21 total)
A Checkerboard of Ethnoracial Violence
Loïc Wacquant
(differential distribution in social and physical space), seclusion (forced institutional parallelism, including the ghetto, camp, and reservation), and violence (from assault to pogrom to ethnic cleansing and racial war of extermination) (see Wacquant 2022 and
Assessing Violence in the Modern World
Richard Bessel
How are we to assess changing levels of violence in the modern world? The answer put forward by Canadian-born Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is unambiguous: “Violence has been in decline over long stretches of history, and today we are probably
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 66–77 (12 total)