Introduction: Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography

Thajib, Ferdiansyah; Dinkelaker, Samia; Stodulka, Thomas

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“…My emotional risk assessment stood in, sometimes sharp, contrast to the risk perceptions of people with whom I was most intimately involved, both those immediately surrounding me and those with whom I had connections at a distance. Instead of experiencing "emotional overlap", I mostly experienced "emotional dissonance" (Feldman and Mandache, 2019;Thajib et al, 2019). My own, changing, feelings of being at risk were different from the feelings of those surrounding me.…”

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“…The methodological relevance of anthropologists' emotions for their positionality in the field, and for the direction of the data-gathering process, is widely acknowledged (Lupton, 2013;Thajib et al, 2019;Warden, 2013). Emotions are also recognized as powerful tools deployed in narratives, which invoke readers' sympathy and help to "tell a story" (Beatty, 2010;Nugent and Abolafia, 2007).…”

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“…Moreover, some scholars argue that researchers' emotions -understood relationally, as based in encounters, and therefore intersubjective -have empirical value. They maintain that interrogating one's own emotional reactions in the field can enhance our understanding of interlocutors' experiences, affects, and values, and of their relations to people and things in their environment (Davies, 2010;Feldman and Mandache, 2019;Hume and Mulcock, 2004;Stodulka et al, 2018;Thajib et al, 2019).…”

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This article provides a narrative account of one anthropologist's experiences in the field at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The account is based on the researcher's field diary and digital communication, supplemented by online news reports from the period March to May 2020. The researcher's emotional assessments of the risks that COVID-19 posed to herself and others around her stood in sharp contrast to the way her interlocutors in the field responded to the virus. The article makes a case for the empirical value of a researcher's emotions, especially in moments of confusion and feelings of disconnection, in order to understand varying risk perceptions. This article moreover draws attention to the experiences of people living outside the initial epicentres of the pandemic. Many Tanzanians perceived COVID-19 as just one risk among many in their already uncertain daily lives.

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“…(Powdermaker 1966: 53) Justin Stagl mocks anthropology's fieldwork fetish and compares the anthropologist's existential crisis and personal learning process with a psychoanalytical voyage of discovery into one's own ego (2002 [1985]). The ethnographic novice will then have to successfully pass a phase of catharsis and endure uncontrollable and barely expected hardship before emerging as the triumphant hero (Stagl 2002(Stagl [1985, see also Baumann 2022, andStodulka/Dinkelaker/Thajib 2019). This tactic, of course, would only work once the (male or female) anthropological Indiana Jones was back in an academic environment, claiming recognition and a successful career.…”

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As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between ›private‹ and ›professional‹ life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out for valuable encounters and waiting for the next moment of disclosure. Yet what lies in the gaps and pauses of fieldwork? The contributions in this volume dedicated to anthropologist Martin Sökefeld explore methodological and ethical dimensions of multi-sided ethnographic research. Based on diverse cases ranging from hobbies over kinship ties to political activism, the contributors show how personal relationships, passions and commitments drive ethnographers in and beyond research, shaping the knowledge they create together with others.

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“…In an article in Ethos on “affective scholarship,” Thomas Stodulka, Nasima Selim, and Dominik Mattes (2018, 521–24) argue for more systematic attention to the researcher's own emotions and affects to better recognize and understand the lifeworlds of interlocutors. Additionally, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Samia Dinkelaker, and Thomas Stodulka (2019) point out that participant observation requires researchers to immerse themselves in the lifeworlds of the persons, objects, and communities they study. This means that fieldworkers are professional researchers and private persons simultaneously, so “field emotions” will inevitably emerge.…”

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Fear of terrorism: Recognizing scenarios of potential danger in urban space

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This article is about the fear of terrorism. The few and mainly quantitative studies on the topic have categorized people as afraid or not afraid, treating fear as a known constant detached from time and space. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article argues instead that the fear of terrorism is momentary and transient; it flares up as flashes of fear. These flashes are triggered by the sensory experience of the urban environment combined with recollections of mediatized horror stories about previous terrorist attacks. This article shows how affects related to historical events, such as terrorist attacks, do not exclusively linger in the exact places or cities where they unfolded. Rather, affects can also, via media, travel to and flash up in scenarios that are geographically distant yet aesthetically resonant with historical events. This article thus provides an understanding of the temporal and emplaced dimensions of fear, and conceptualizes the relationship between the affects we experience, the surroundings we live in, and the stories we are exposed to via media.

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Introduction: Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography

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Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic

Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic

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