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But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research

Baines, Donna ; Braedley, Susan ; Daly, Tamara ; Ågotnes, Gudmund ; Banerjee, Albert ; Chaccour, Elias ; Côté-Boucher, Karine ; Glasdam, Stinne LU orcid ; Hillier, Sean and MacDonald, Martha , et al. (2024) In Qualitative Research
Abstract
Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers’ bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue that a neoliberal “research super-hero” norm operates within the research community, rooted in a conception of high productivity that mingles uneasily, for many researchers, with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial social justice aims and responsibilities. Our 2022 fieldwork experience led us to notice how this norm has circulated within... (More)
Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers’ bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue that a neoliberal “research super-hero” norm operates within the research community, rooted in a conception of high productivity that mingles uneasily, for many researchers, with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial social justice aims and responsibilities. Our 2022 fieldwork experience led us to notice how this norm has circulated within our explicitly feminist research team and nudged us to challenge it, while raising questions about how a “research-worker” norm can best be supported. (Less)
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feminist political economy, fieldwork, rapid ethnography, materiality, embodyment, pandemic, research collaboration
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Qualitative Research
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12 pages
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SAGE Publications
ISSN
1741-3109
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10.1177/14687941241264473
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Imagining Age-Friendly “communities within communities”
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English
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  author       = {{Baines, Donna and Braedley, Susan and Daly, Tamara and Ågotnes, Gudmund and Banerjee, Albert and Chaccour, Elias and Côté-Boucher, Karine and Glasdam, Stinne and Hillier, Sean and MacDonald, Martha and Jacobsen, Frode F, and Stilwel, Christie}},
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  title        = {{But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14687941241264473}},
  doi          = {{10.1177/14687941241264473}},
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