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来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.46,Issue1,P.81-107

语言

英文

关键字

critical ethnography; emotional labor; emotional reflexivity; RESEARCHING SENSITIVE TOPICS; INTERACTIONIST ANALYSIS; POWER; FEMINIST; RACE; EXPERIENCES; SEXUALITY; SOCIOLOGY; WHITES; GENDER

作者单位

[McQueeney, Krista] Merrimack Coll, Dept Criminol, 315 Turnpike St, N Andover, MA 01845 USA. [Lavelle, Kristen M.] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Sociol Criminol & Anthropol, Whitewater, WI 53190 USA. McQueeney, K (reprint author), Merrimack Coll, Dept Criminol, 315 Turnpike St, N Andover, MA 01845 USA. E-Mail: mcqueeneyk@merrimack.edu

摘要

In this article, the concept of emotional labor is used to capture dilemmas of critical ethnographic research. We frame our experiences not simply as confessional tales, or personalized accounts of how researchers experience their fieldwork, but as part of critical methodology itself. We identify three strategies for transforming our emotional labor into an analytic tool: contextualizing emotions, using emotions to unmask power in the research process, and linking emotions to personal biographies. Following ethnographers who question the separation between data and analysis, we explore how emotions and power intersected in two key ethnographic moments: collecting data and writing the research narrative.