Fieldwork Unbound: Spaces of Association in Postconflict Vietnam

Gillen, Jamie

doi:10.1080/00330124.2013.848759

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“…Location is necessarily tied in with debates in Geography around the ‘field’, an elusive construct, refusing to be contained by rooted notions of place (Gillen ; Walker ). Katz's () well known work on displacement in Sudan and East Harlem illustrates the instability of any notion of a unified field.…”

Section: Sites Of Critical Geographymentioning

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Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Walker

Boamah

2017

Geography and Environment

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The main purpose of this paper is to develop a new method for visualizing knowledge production which is attentive to the multiple elements embedded in research processes. In particular, we seek to problematise the representation of scholarship indicators by depicting theoretical contributions and field sites along a spectrum, rather than as discrete points, recursively and relationally constituted. The primary aim of our visualisations is to capture text and context, and codified and tacit knowledge. First, we offer a conventional representation of the location of selected dominant critical theories in Geography, arguing that current methods reinforce 'lopsided' geographies of knowledge production. Normative practices of data visualisation and representation captured in our two examples privilege certain elements centred on authorship and tend to silence the contexts informing research. Second, we borrow the term and method of chromatography, a tool used in the natural sciences but here conceived in its more literal sense of 'writing the separations'. Our 'chromatographical' representations attempt to unbundle components currently absorbed by formal indicators of knowledge production. Such counter mappings attempt to convey the relational aspect of research between countries imbricated in the propagation of exemplary critical geographic theories. We conclude with a discussion of the implications that the disaggregation of value has for scholars and their research.

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Section: Sites Of Critical Geographymentioning

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Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Walker

Boamah

2017

Geography and Environment

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“…Geographers have long stressed the importance of defining ‘the field’ (Nast ; Katz ) not as a bounded entity where research is conducted but as a space that emerges and extends beyond territorial definitions (Gillen ). These spaces, both materially and within the imagination, exist in multiple forms with the understanding that the researcher is embroiled in a constitutive and productive relationship always in process (Jackson ).…”

Section: Bringing Together ‘Field’ and ‘Work’mentioning

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The productive and disruptive methodology of doing fieldwork at work

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2015

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This paper argues that the 'place' of work matters methodologically in producing knowledge in and about the field. It draws on research conducted in Mexico with economically disenfranchised labourers and elite workers. Analysing two different sites in comparative context highlights the productive and disruptive function of the workplace. In the first example, interviewees play with constraints, freedoms and productivities of 'work' , disrupting heuristics associated with this category. In the process, there is a blurring of formal/informal space meaning that for marginalised groups in Latin America there is often no 'outside' . In the second example, employees at a non-governmental organisation internalise the discursive messages associated with neoliberalism. Here, the workplace is transformed into a productive site of subjectivity while also functioning as a limiting mechanism in the interview process.

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Fieldwork Unbound: Spaces of Association in Postconflict Vietnam

Cited by 2 publications

References 25 publications

Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

The productive and disruptive methodology of doing fieldwork at work

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