“Then What Have I to do with Thee?”: On Identity, Fieldwork, and Ethnographic Knowledge

Kirschner, Suzanne R.

doi:10.1525/can.1987.2.2.02a00030

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“…100-101). This is a model of understanding (which hermeneuticists have taken to be a general way of knowing, not applicable merely to the interpretation of literal texts) that situates the power of narrative in the way it points outward, to a (socially constructed) reality, rather than in how it moves the interpreter at an emotional level (Kirschner, 1987). It frames the reader (whether she is a literary critic or a social researcher) as something of a puzzle-solver, symbol-decoder and language-learner (Geertz, 1979).…”

Section: Narrative Psychology and Its Discontentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The many challenges of theorizing subjectivity

Kirschner

2013

Culture & Psychology

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Cultural psychologists and other social researchers have demonstrated a strong interest in subjectivity in recent years. It has become apparent that there are a number of challenges and tensions inherent in such projects, some of which are acknowledged more often than others. One such challenge is how to theorize subjectivity as both socioculturally constituted and experiential, embodied, and singular. Another less frequently articulated problem is the question of how to accord a prominent place to affective and emotional experience when subjectivity is often framed and analyzed in predominantly cognitive, rationalistic or ''sociorational'' terms. Recent approaches that highlight embodiment are intended, in part, to address this concern, but they can be accompanied by a drift toward neurobiological reductionism. Other problems include the tension between phenomenological, narrative and psychoanalytic approaches to subjectivity, and the need to differentiate between methods used to analyze literal ''texts'' and those appropriate for studying the ways texts and other cultural products are read and used by embodied persons. These challenges and complexities notwithstanding, current projects concerned with developing theories of subjectivity, and with highlighting its ''affective'' dimension in particular, are extremely valuable and should be encouraged.

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Section: Narrative Psychology and Its Discontentsmentioning

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The many challenges of theorizing subjectivity

Kirschner

2013

Culture & Psychology

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“…anthropologists have explored the emotional interaction between themselves and their informants (Behar 1996;Ewing 1987;Kirschner 1987). In September 2006, at the conference "Emotions in the Field" (organised by James Davies and Dimitrina Mihaylova at Oxford University), scholars from various backgrounds (mainly anthropology and psychoanalysis) discussed this issue.…”

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Passions and Powers: Emotions and Globalisation

Svašek

Skrbiš

2007

Identities

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“…Their reconstruction is a public process.' Rabinow depicts here the meeting of two alien worlds, using the language of separatedness and distance [35] . The rapport between interviewer and interviewee is one of co-presence.…”

Section: Second-person (Inter-subjectivist) Approachmentioning

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The Grammar of the Psychiatric Interview

Stanghellini¹

2007

Psychopathology

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“Then What Have I to do with Thee?”: On Identity, Fieldwork, and Ethnographic Knowledge

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

The many challenges of theorizing subjectivity

The many challenges of theorizing subjectivity

Passions and Powers: Emotions and Globalisation

The Grammar of the Psychiatric Interview

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