Muhanna, Aitemad (2014) When the researcher becomes a subject of ethnographic research: studying “myself” and “others” in Gaza. Women's Studies International Forum, 45 . pp. 112-118. ISSN 0277-5395
Abstract
This paper examines the model of ethnographic framing of the self/other relationship, and how this framing contributes to de-essentializing the theorizing of women's agency and subjectivity. The paper reflects on my own PhD field research experience conducted during 2007–2008 in the Gaza Strip. In a situation where the researcher and the research subject share the spatial history, as well as the multiple positionalities in their life cycle, the researcher's self inevitably becomes a subject of the ethnography. The analysis in this paper transcends the simplicity of the interactive relations between ‘researchers’ and ‘researched’. It rather depends upon a much more nuanced recognition of the shared subjective experiences of both ethnographers and their subjects of ethnography. The paper concludes that the relocation of the ethnographer to be a subject of research helps her to be critical of her own epistemological feminist knowledge.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Sets: | Research centres and groups > Middle East Centre |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2014 09:38 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/55478/ |
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