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Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in Fieldwork

Hedlund, Anna LU orcid and Sampson, Steven LU (2023) p.93-116
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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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 ; Grassiani, Erella and Green, Linda
pages
25 pages
publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9781032333816
9781003333418
DOI
10.4324/9781003333418-9
language
English
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yes
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page proofs of final version.
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271a3394-7bec-4507-b4fc-4699cfd779ec
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2021-08-05 20:03:27
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2024-10-24 16:27:56
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  author       = {{Hedlund, Anna and Sampson, Steven}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in Fieldwork}},
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  year         = {{2023}},
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