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

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ISBN 10: 0774824948 ISBN 13: 9780774824941

Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2014

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."

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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:

In the late 1970s and '80s, socialist countries in Asia began reopening their borders to overseas scholars. Today, a growing number of social scientists are embarking on fieldwork in China, Vietnam, and Laos. 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 human geographers and social anthropologists contributing to this volume are actively engaged in research with ethnic minorities in upland socialist Asia. Accomplished geographers, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians, they foreground the importance of questioning one's subjective gaze and of debating representations of "the other." Reflecting on the realities of fieldwork in socialist regimes and analysing their positionality and subjectivity in the field, the contributors debate a range of ethical quandaries and the rewards that can be gained from critical reflection. Together, these unique contributions will advance the study of the practice of international fieldwork.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0774824948
• ISBN 13: 9780774824941
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 295
• Redattore: Turner Sarah