Doing the “Rights” Thing: Methods and Challenges of Fieldwork in Iran

Osanloo, Arzoo

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“…Th ese experiences greatly infl uence the ways the scholars conduct their research. Expectations and demands by local people, relatives or friends are problems for visiting anthropologists, although rarely discussed in ethnographic texts (Nadjmabadi 2004;Osanloo 2004;Rouhani 2004;Shahbazi 2004). Th e expectations infl uence not only the quality of life in the fi eld but also fi eldwork methodology.…”

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“…Th e diff erences range from frustrating personal relationships created in the wake of activist goals (Nadjmabadi 2004); to interacting with a grandmother and other relatives to learn about their views of women's rights (Osanloo 2004); or quietly observant relations over several generations (Friedl 1991(Friedl , 1994(Friedl , 2004a(Friedl , 2004b; or engaging in in-depth, philosophical, one-to-one discussion during long periods of isolated companionship (R. Loeffl er 1988Loeffl er , 2004; from being engaged in several projects simultaneously in diff erent parts of the country (Amanolahi 2004); to returning to the same place and the same people many times (Amanolahi 2004;Kalinock 2004;R. Loeffl er 2004;Shahbazi 2004;Suzuki 2004); from scribbling hasty notes to recording interviews and observations on a laptop computer on site , to memorizing long interviews for later write-up (R. Loeffl er 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Anthropologists must be tenacious and fl exible, prepared to pursue their research under discouraging conditions, and also, when necessary, to try diff erent approaches, methodologies, or even, fi nally, projects or fi eldwork sites. Sometimes anthropologists have to invent research methodologies and perspectives, when previously developed methodologies are not appropriate for the research situation, or when methodologies have not been yet developed for a certain topic (see Friedl 2004b;Osanloo 2004;Shahbazi 2004). So much of the anthropological enterprise goes on in the fi eldwork setting, when the anthropologist creatively responds to the people and conditions of that setting, trying out diff erent ways of learning and modifying approaches in reaction to ongoing experiences.…”

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Methods Applied: Political Transformation and Recent Ethnographic Fieldwork in Iran

Hegland¹,

Friedl²

2006

Anthropology of the Middle East

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In the 1970s social cultural anthropology in Iran was beginning to fl ourish. However, with the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Islamic Republic of Iran, fi eldwork in Iran became extremely problematic. Foreign anthropologists faced formidable obstacles to obtaining visas and permits. Anthropologists working inside Iran were also discouraged from anthropological participant observation. As a result, during the post revolutionary period, few anthropologists have been conducting fi eldwork in Iran. Recently, some hopeful signs for a possible reestablishment of anthropology can be noted, among them the return of young Iranian anthropologists, from countries where they have grown up and gained an education, to their homeland for dissertation research. Th is article discusses the infl uences on fi eldwork of politics-international, national and local-and projects, problems and strategies of some anthropologists who have conducted recent ethnographic fi eldwork in Iran.

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Field Research on Law in Conflict Zones and Authoritarian States

Massoud

2016

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Scholars of law and social science have challenged conventional wisdom that law and courts in authoritarian states are, at best, the tools of dictators and that law fails to matter in places riven by violence or warfare. Less discussed is how this expansive body of research is being carried out in conflict zones and authoritarian states. This article takes on that challenge: to describe the state of the study of field research on law by paying close attention to those unlikely places—conflict-affected and authoritarian states—that illuminate law's power in unexpected ways and to those close-to-the-ground methods—ethnographic, interview-based, and archival—that generate new hypotheses for law and social science research.

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Islamic Law and Society Post-9/11

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▪ Abstract After the events of September 11, 2001, scholars rushed to contribute to the growing public debate about religion and political violence, including to counter stereotypic depictions of Islamic law and to raise questions about its role in the social and political life of Muslim and non-Muslim nations. The same period also witnessed the publication of much scholarship on Muslim personal or family law. This review focuses on these works and highlights their sophisticated theoretical treatments of social theory in critical areas, such as the interaction of normative orders, constructions and intersections of identity, human agency in the legal process, law reform and social movements, state uses of law, and the challenges facing globalizing societies. These theories provide grounding for scholars, activists, and policymakers in addressing the pressing issues emerging after 9/11.

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Doing the “Rights” Thing: Methods and Challenges of Fieldwork in Iran

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