Undertaking Fieldwork under “Difficult” Conditions
Boumaza, Magali
Undertaking Fieldwork under “Difficult” Conditions - 2007.
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The general introduction engages in a discussion on the methodological and epistemological stakes raised by the adoption of an ethnographic approach in doing fieldwork under striving conditions. It first intends to define a category more than often linked with zones of violence or contexts of insecurity. This category also includes objects considered as socially illegitimate, stigmatized or proselytes. Then, the paper proposes a survey of the French and Anglo-Saxon state of art and approaches, as well as the strategies elaborated to bypass them. Finally, it puts forward the contributions of the ethnographic methods, showing that it modifies the way political scientists using it construct their objects.
Undertaking Fieldwork under “Difficult” Conditions - 2007.
1
The general introduction engages in a discussion on the methodological and epistemological stakes raised by the adoption of an ethnographic approach in doing fieldwork under striving conditions. It first intends to define a category more than often linked with zones of violence or contexts of insecurity. This category also includes objects considered as socially illegitimate, stigmatized or proselytes. Then, the paper proposes a survey of the French and Anglo-Saxon state of art and approaches, as well as the strategies elaborated to bypass them. Finally, it puts forward the contributions of the ethnographic methods, showing that it modifies the way political scientists using it construct their objects.
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