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

✍ Scribed by Shalini Puri, Debra A. Castillo (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 264
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Conjectures on Undisciplined Research....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement....Pages 29-49
Women’s Naked Protest in Africa: Comparative Literature and Its Futures....Pages 51-71
Aesthetics in the Making of History: The Tebhaga Women’s Movement in Bengal....Pages 73-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Locating Palestine Within American Studies: Transitory Field Sites and Borrowed Methods....Pages 95-107
Absent Performances: Distant Fieldwork on Social Movement Theater of Algeria and India....Pages 109-129
Ethical Dilemmas in Studying Blogging by Favela Residents in Brazil....Pages 131-149
Reading Delhi, Writing Delhi: An Ethnography of Literature....Pages 151-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Daily Life and Digital Reach: Place-based Research and History’s Transnational Turn....Pages 167-181
Lessons from the Space Between Languages: Notes on Poetry and Ethnography....Pages 183-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Researching the Cultural Politics of Dirt in Urban Africa....Pages 193-211
Accidental Histories: Fieldwork Among the Maroons of Jamaica....Pages 213-234
Engagement and Pedagogy: Traveling with Students in Chiapas, Mexico....Pages 235-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-267

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory;Area Studies;Cultural Studies;Contemporary Literature

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