Going beyond known knowledge with ethnographers' reflexivity in a working-class neighbourhood of public housing estates in neoliberal Hong Kong

Yan, Jason (2021) Going beyond known knowledge with ethnographers' reflexivity in a working-class neighbourhood of public housing estates in neoliberal Hong Kong. Field Research Methods Lab Blog (21 Jun 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

My PhD research explores the impacts of territorial stigmatisation on shaping working-class culture and identity in public housing estates in neoliberal Hong Kong. From 2015 to 2019, I gained access to Immortal (the nicknamed neighbourhood where my family had settled for four generations) and collected data from a group of public housing residents who shared similar views on and experiences of stigmatisation with me, by ways of group observations and individual interviews. However, when I intend to go beyond my known knowledge of the field where I have been a part of, I find ethnographers’ reflexivity is more useful and insightful than knowledge positionality, writes Jason Yan.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearch/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2025 15:03
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 14:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126735

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