Othered Ethnography
Institutional training seldom prepares early-career researchers and students sufficiently for the challenges ethnographers may face during empirical research. Too little attention is paid to the significance of the researchers’ and the interlocutors’ intersectional identities and the impact they have on the research process. Therefore, in this talk I focus on the specific challenges of ethnographic research as a gendered and embodied practice. I address the dynamic power relations between ethnographers, interlocutors and gatekeepers during anthropological fieldwork and ethnographic interviews. I illustrate how gendered, racialized and nationalized bodies and identities influence fieldwork experience, relationships and the collection and interpretation of research data. To highlight this, I draw attention to the topic of sexualized harassment during anthropological fieldwork, which continues to be marginalized in methodological discussions and training.
Time
Tuesday, 03.12.24 - 12:00 PM
- 02:00 PM
Event format
Lecture series
Topic
Engaged Anthropology
Speaker
Dr. Sinah Kloß
Target groups
Students
Researchers
All interested
Location
Global Heritage Lab
Reservation
not required
Organizer
Global Heritage Lab & Abteilung für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft & Kulturanthropologie
Contact
Sascha Sistenich M.A. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter & Vertrauensperson, Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und Kulturanthropologie/ Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie