Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in Fieldwork
(2022) p.114-137- Abstract
- Using examples from fieldwork among armed groups in Congo and pre-1989 Romania, this article argues against the prevailing ethos of ethnographers engagement with the people they study, in favor of a dynamic between engagement and detachment, what we call 'emotional management'. Two examples from our fieldwork are given, Hedlund on fieldwork with armed groups, Sampson on his informants being haraased by the Romanian secret police.
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- author
- Sampson, Steven LU and Hedlund, Anna LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-06-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- in press
- subject
- keywords
- Social Anthropology, Romania, Paranoia, ethnography, ethnographic fieldwork, Congo, Secret Police/Securitatea, surveillance, Emotions
- host publication
- The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World
- editor
- Weiss, Nerina ; Green, Linda and Grassiani, Erella
- pages
- 25 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Submitted book chapter, currently being reviewed by Routledge
- id
- 271a3394-7bec-4507-b4fc-4699cfd779ec
- date added to LUP
- 2021-08-05 20:03:27
- date last changed
- 2022-06-14 11:27:10
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