“The Field as Here and Now, Not There and Then”
Fieldwork is at once a political, personal, and professional undertaking. It provides crucial reference points and evidence upon which knowledge claims are made. Careful consideration, though, is required of one’s own assumptions about the field, especially boundaries between here and there. I make three related arguments: that, as a researcher, one is always in the … Continue reading “The Field as Here and Now, Not There and Then”