Gender and Age in Fieldwork and Fieldwork Education: No Good Thing Is Done by Any Man Alone

Wax, Rosalie H.

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“…Much of the literature on ethnographic research explores the impact of researcher status congruence or incongruence with the research population on the quality of the data collected (see Adams 1999; Gurney 1985; Lofland 2006; Naples 1996; Wax 1979). Although the insider/outsider debate continues, there is evidence that each side has its own set of advantages and disadvantages and can result in the production of valuable knowledge (May 2014).…”

Section: Research Methods and Settingmentioning

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Urban Mascots and Poverty Fetishism

Benz

2015

Sociological Perspectives

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Downtown Los Angeles is undergoing a transformation from concentrated disadvantage to vibrant city center. Using ethnographic research conducted in the gentrifying Historic Core of Los Angeles, I find that the presence of some original residents is encouraged as they help create the gritty and risky atmosphere valued by the new urbanites moving to the area who equate poverty with authenticity in a form of poverty fetishism. I focus here on a subsection of the low-income downtown population, who I call "urban mascots," whose value lies in their ability to embody stereotypical attributes of poverty. I create a typology of urban mascots based on the type of interactions they are willing to have with those seeking experiences with urban poverty. In the end, I argue that urban mascots provide the new gentrifying residents with a cast of nonthreatening and charismatic characters who represent for them a consumable authentic urban experience.

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Urban Mascots and Poverty Fetishism

Benz

2015

Sociological Perspectives

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“…For instance, Sloan and Wright (2015) describe having to adjust their appearance in order to not appear too young. Being seen as young might carry advantages as well though; Wax and Guillemin (1979) suggest that young researchers may succeed in the field, when they position themselves as learners looking for mentors (the informants) who might more readily choose to share their expert knowledge with someone more junior. In our case, we both experienced being positioned as younger and less experienced than we were, albeit in slightly different ways, and with different consequences.…”

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A Difference That Makes a Difference? Reflexivity and Researcher Effects in an All-Foreign Prison

Damsa

Ugelvik

2017

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Today, researchers are expected to spend considerable energy describing and discussing their own social positions and personas in the field for at least two reasons: First, researchers always observe the field from a specific point of view. Their perspective is structured by their own social position and biography and is thus unique. Second, the people in the field react differently to the presence of different researchers. The field persona of the researcher is expected to impact the data she or he is able to produce. For these reasons, critically discussing one's own field experiences is seen as an important part of the qualitative research process. This article will discuss the second part of this argument. Based on the experiences of two different researchers in the same field site, we ask whether it is true that different researchers necessarily produce different data. We conclude that in this case, at least, the differences between the two researchers did not seem to make much of a difference.

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“…First, the scene from my fieldwork, with the foster mothers’ recognizing my difference and then teaching this difference to their children by way of playful teasing, made me uncomfortable because it pointed directly to aspects of difference that were contextualized in a way that I had not fully anticipated prior to entering the field and were largely out of my control within the field (Wax, 1979). However, these interactions were also a great source of knowledge, given that the foster mothers prescribed a role to both the children and myself that we, in turn, resisted.…”

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Minimizing social distance: Participatory research with children

Raffety

2014

Childhood

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This article reviews and critiques an ethical strategy of minimizing social difference between researcher and child in participatory research with children, and drawing on fieldwork, presents an alternative strategy of minimizing social distance. The author argues that an ethical strategy of minimizing social distance between researcher and research subject(s) (1) enables the constitution of difference in relationship, (2) lends research subjects autonomy to contribute to the research relationship, design, and process, and (3) makes ethics central to the project's implementation, not merely its design. The author advocates for increased methodological conversations across disciplines toward furthering ethical participatory research with children.

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Gender and Age in Fieldwork and Fieldwork Education: No Good Thing Is Done by Any Man Alone

Cited by 40 publications

References 3 publications

Urban Mascots and Poverty Fetishism

Urban Mascots and Poverty Fetishism

A Difference That Makes a Difference? Reflexivity and Researcher Effects in an All-Foreign Prison

Minimizing social distance: Participatory research with children

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