Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 077482493X ISBN 13: 9780774824934

Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Red Stamps and Gold Stars brings together all the messiness, compromise, and ethical dilemmas that underscore fieldwork in upland socialist Asia and elsewhere in the Global South. These challenges can range from how to gain research access to politically sensitive border regions, to helping informants-turned-friends access appropriate health care, to reflections on how to best represent ethnic minority voices. The volume's contributors - accomplished geographers, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians - foreground the importance of questioning one's subjective gaze and of debating representations of "the other."

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sarah Turner is an associate professor in the department of geography at McGill University. Contributors: Christine Bonnin, Candice Cornet, Magnus Fiskesjo, Stéphane Gros, Stevan Harrell, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Li Xingxing, Karen McAllister, Jean Michaud, Pierre Petit, Oscar Salemink, Jennifer Sowerwine, and Janet C. Sturgeon

Product Description:

Red Stamps and Gold Stars explores the professional, political, and private dilemmas faced by non-native ethnographic field researchers in contemporary China, Vietnam, and Laos. The geographers and anthropologists contributing to this volume are actively engaged in research with upland ethnic minorities. Debating the realities of such fieldwork in socialist regimes and analysing their positionality and subjectivity in the field, the contributors consider a range of ethical quandaries. Highlighting the rewards that can be gained from critical reflection, these unique contributions will advance the study of international fieldwork practices.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 077482493X
• ISBN 13: 9780774824934
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 295
• Redattore: Turner Sarah