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Doing Fieldwork while Parenting : Between Challenging and Intensifying Structural Power Imbalances in Anthropological Knowledge Production

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Ayeh, Anna Madeleine:
Doing Fieldwork while Parenting : Between Challenging and Intensifying Structural Power Imbalances in Anthropological Knowledge Production.
In: Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology. Vol. 28 (2022) . - pp. 24-40.
ISSN 2673-5377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36950/sjsca.2022.28.7998

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Abstract in another language

Conducting fieldwork as a White woman researcher from the Global North on women’s practices of religious knowing in Benin, my work is based on multiple entwined positionalities that require critical reflection. The political categories of race, gender, age, religion, and family status at times linked, at times distanced me from my interlocutors in Benin as well as my colleagues at University of Bayreuth. This article explores the multiple ways parenting has informed my work in Benin and its institutional integration in a German Anthropology department. Using difference as a lens, I enquire how parenting, intersecting with gender, sexuality, and family normativity, has been used to undo difference during fieldwork, while exacerbating structural inequalities with reference to academic funding structures and research organization.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: accompanied fieldwork; parenting; positionality; reflexivity; difference; intersectionality; un/doing difference
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology > Chair Social Anthropology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > African Studies
Faculties
Profile Fields
Profile Fields > Advanced Fields
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 300 Social sciences
Date Deposited: 15 Mar 2023 07:13
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2023 13:44
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/74239