Bildung und Migration als Ausgangspunkte für forschungsmethodische und -ethische Reflexionen

Disclosing Otherness: Situated Knowledges and the Politics of Ethnographic Approaches to the #WeAreNotWaiting Movement in Type 1 Diabetes and Beyond

“…“[U]ncertainty about adequate means of describing social realities” (Marcus and Fisher 1986, 8), the worry of betraying the people that opened up their lives to the researchers, how the interlocutors react to potential critical analysis or dealing with one’s sympathy towards the researched community and emotions in empirical inquiries are part of almost all ethnographies (Newkirk 1996; Sheikh 2022; von Bose 2018, 62f; Wong 1998). When the researched field is constantly negotiating solidarity, “taking sides” or outsider research, when engaging with individuals and groups that might be in precarious situations because of their political engagement and that fight for epistemic legitimacy, these issues and the practice of reflecting on what an accountable “ethnographic attitude” (Haraway 1997, 191) can entail within the engagement in and with health activist communities is crucial and call for particular attentiveness of the ethnographer.…”