Conclusion: Female Fighters in the Lebanese Civil War and Beyond

Eggert, Jennifer Philippa

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“…The casual Islamophobia I experienced in Lebanon did not affect me that much, but it does in the UK. In Lebanon, it seemed negligible compared to the stories of horror, pain and loss my interviewees shared with me (Eggert, 2021), and Lebanon was not home. Islamophobia in Lebanon was an unpleasant experience I could leave there.…”

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“…What these encounters provided me with, though, was an appreciation of the context in Lebanon and of my positionality as a female white European Muslim researcher in that environment. Differences between the various regions and cities of Lebanon, cultural norms, societal constraints and intercommunal relations were all relevant factors in my research (Eggert, 2021), and going through these experiences made me understand a bit better how some of these could unfold in everyday life.…”

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“…Through an association of former fighters, personal contacts and chance encounters, I quickly gained access to former combatants and militants in Lebanon who had been involved with one of the many militias that had been fighting in the war. The diversity of my interviewees was enormous: former Christian, Sunni Muslim, Shia Muslim, Druze, secular, communist, socialist and right-wing fighters (Eggert, 2021). In total, I conducted almost 70 interviews over a total of nearly 4 months in 2015 and 2016.…”

Section: Jennifer: Researching Gender and Civil War In Lebanonmentioning

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Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK

Rumsby

Eggert

2023

Qualitative Research

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This article contributes to the growing literature on researcher reflexivity by broaching the often-ignored issue of religious positionalities within political science, as well as speaking to the methodological implications of researching religion more broadly. We present and compare two autoethnographic case studies of research on politico-religious conflict in Vietnam and Lebanon, exploring how a researcher’s religiosity presents unique fieldwork challenges, opportunities and insights. We then discuss the ambivalence faced by religious researchers within the highly secularised academic environment, thus blurring the artificial dichotomy between ‘the field’ and the academy. Our reflections centre around three findings: (1) the importance of taking an intersectional approach which neither essentialises nor ignores religious aspects of positionality, whilst also being sensitive to spatial and temporal shifts in how they interact with a researcher’s gender, ethnicity, class and other identifiers; (2) the opportunities and perils of a researcher’s apparent religious common ground with participants (or lack thereof) in building rapport and negotiating a degree of insider status; and (3) the similarities and differences between suspicions of religious partialism during fieldwork and within academia.

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