Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities : Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South

Debra A. Castillo

ISBN 10: 1349928364 / ISBN 13: 9781349928361

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted their frames of analysis.They explore how to make fieldwork legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the humanities and those who are seeking ways to undertake it.

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• Titolo: Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities : Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1349928364
• ISBN 13: 9781349928361
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 155 A x 16 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 16 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 435 grammi

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This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy.  The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted their frames of analysis. They explore how to make fieldwork legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the humanities and those who are seeking ways to undertake it. 

Informazioni sull?autore

Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. Her edited collections include The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics, Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, and (with Lara Putnam) Caribbean Military Encounters. 

Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, USA. Her most recent books include Mexican Public Intellectuals (with Stuart Day) and Despite all Adversities:  Spanish American Queer Cinema (with Andrés Lema Hincapié).