Representing Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Southern Africa

Currier, Ashley

doi:10.1007/s11133-011-9198-9

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“…The challenges of working in a community that is not your own and on your informants’ timetables are not unique to my work or to Indian country. In fact, the reflexive work of ethnographers frequently considers the ethical and practical tribulations of work across social locations and centralizes the efforts of researchers to be sensitive to the needs of their informants in the context of knowledge production (see for example Currier, 2011; Jackson, 2004; Jacobs-Huey, 2002). However, despite what I am sure are fairly common experiences in ethnographic work, the occasional slowness of this care taking is at odds in some ways with the professional expectations of our industry, which include ‘producing’ research on a much shorter timetable than the ones that contour many other communities.…”

Section: Doing Sociology Slowlymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ten Years on: Making Relatives and Making Meaning in the Borderlands

Gurr

2013

Critical Sociology

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This article utilizes an auto-ethnographic approach to consider some of the tensions inherent in the requirements of sociology as an industry. Short production timelines, high expected output, and classical notions of objectivity continue to organize sociological inquiry, even as critical sociologists continue to question these very relations of ruling. This essay contributes to ongoing critical analyses of sociology's disciplinary paradigm and offers a consideration of the interstitial spaces potentially produced by 'slow sociology' as one possible antidote to these limitations. Productive of a borderlands epistemology, slow sociology resists the ruling relations of sociology and encourages nuanced translation work between cultures of study, cultures of habitation, and cultures of disciplined inquiry, fostering links between public society and academic endeavors.

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Section: Doing Sociology Slowlymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ten Years on: Making Relatives and Making Meaning in the Borderlands

Gurr

2013

Critical Sociology

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“…", and "Do we have an obligation to cast our participants in a positive light?" (Currier 2011). The concern for representing participants is perhaps the most significant ethical dilemma we face.…”

Section: Representationmentioning

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“…These "representational ethics" raise critical questions about knowledge generation and the kinds of contributions we want to make to the lives of those we study (Currier 2011).…”

Section: Representationmentioning

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Afterword: The Ethics of Risk, Power, and Representation

Swauger

2011

Qual Sociol

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“…R.V., for example, performed Mary Poppins' "A Spoonful of Sugar" with flour that she cut with a giant razor blade and snorted through a straw made out of PVC piping. Still, this was probably the way they made themselves most vulnerable, and we tried our best, in the tradition of ethical fieldwork practices, to tell an important part of the story without doing damage to their lives (Ellis 2007;Guillemin and Gillam 2004;Punch 1986;Barton 2011;Currier 2011;Einwohner 2011;González-López 2011).…”

Section: Continuing the Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

Going Back and Giving Back: The Ethics of Staying in the Field

Rupp

Taylor

2011

Qual Sociol

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This article analyzes the benefits and ethical dilemmas of going back and continuing to write about the troupe of drag queens featured in our book, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret. The benefits include providing the drag queens the opportunity to revise and add to the stories we told about them and, through deepening friendships, changing the balance of power among us. Challenges include dealing with responses to the book, including those of family members, and conflicts over the royalties we shared with the troupe. Despite the pitfalls, going back contributes to public sociology by continuing conversations about research findings.One day, out of the blue, seven years after the publication of our book, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (Rupp and Taylor 2003), we received an email from a Key West resident we don't know: "Great book. I have what might appear to be a dumb question; do you have a favorite drag queen currently performing at the 801?" he asked. It was a question we could not have answered had we not remained "in the field" since we finished the project, and it reminded us how much staying involved with the drag queens we studied has shaped what we continue to write. Most of the time, the relationship between researchers and the researched ends when the project is finished-or, in the case of feminist research, participatory action research, or other methods sensitive to ethical responsibility to the researched-when the final product is shared with the subjects of the research. But sometimes the relationship continues, either Qual Sociol (2011) 34:483-496

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Representing Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Southern Africa

Cited by 20 publications

References 41 publications

Ten Years on: Making Relatives and Making Meaning in the Borderlands

Ten Years on: Making Relatives and Making Meaning in the Borderlands

Afterword: The Ethics of Risk, Power, and Representation

Going Back and Giving Back: The Ethics of Staying in the Field

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