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

ISBN-13: 9781349928361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 267 str.

Shalini Puri; Debra A. Castillo

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This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. 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.

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Table of Contents

 

 

Acknowledgments

 

Contributors

 

1. Debra A. Castillo and Shalini Puri  

Introduction: Conjectures on Undisciplined Research                                                          

Memory, Conflict, Contestation

 

2. Shalini Puri                        

Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement

 

3. Naminata Diabate  

                  

Women’s Naked Protest in Africa: Comparative Literature and its Futures

 

4. Kavita Panjabi                      

Aesthetics in the Making of History: The Tebhaga Women's Movement in Bengal

       

Place, Performance, Practices

 

5. Jennifer Lynn Kelly                 

Locating Palestine within American Studies: Transitory Field Sites and Borrowed Methods

 

6. Neil Doshi                          

Absent Performances: Distant Fieldwork on Social Movement Theater of Algeria and India

                                                                       

7. Tori Holmes                         

Ethical Dilemmas in Studying Blogging by Favela Residents in Brazil

                                                                       

8. Rashmi Sadana                       

Reading Delhi, Writing Delhi: An Ethnography of Literature

           

Medium and Form

 

9. Lara Putnam                         

Daily Life and Digital Reach: Place-Based Research and History’s Transnational Turn

 

10. Renato Rosaldo                    

Lessons from the Space between Languages: Notes on Poetry and Ethnography

                                                                       

Institutions, Organizations, Collaborations

           

11. Stephanie Newell                   

Researching the Cultural Politics of Dirt in Urban Africa

                                                                         

12. Paul Youngquist                   

Accidental Histories: Fieldwork Among the Maroons of Jamaica

                                                                       

13. Debra A. Castillo                  

Engagement and Pedagogy: Traveling with Students in Chiapas, Mexico

                                                                        

                                                                       

 

O autorze

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). 

Blurb

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.