Following, Othering, Taking Over

IF 1 3区 社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Social Analysis Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.3167/SA.2021.650109
N. Winters
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Based on fieldwork with migrants and border populations in Central America and the story of a young Congolese woman in particular, this article discusses how research participants’ use of mobile communication technology provokes a redefinition of the ethnographic field. Increasingly popular trajectory research often sets out to follow migrants, yet a focus on migrants keeping in touch with researchers at their own initiative and discretion, following them, reveals entanglements of selective on- and offline engagement and self-representation. Critical exploration of research participants’ differentiated use of digital technology for navigating a social environment that includes the researcher herself not only transforms our understanding of the field in empirical, ethical, and methodological terms, but also counteracts potentially voyeuristic and life-threatening practices of following people on the move.
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跟随,他人,接管
本文基于对中美洲移民和边境人口的实地调查,以及一位年轻刚果妇女的故事,讨论了研究参与者使用移动通信技术如何引发对民族志领域的重新定义。越来越受欢迎的轨迹研究往往开始关注移民,然而,关注移民主动和谨慎地与研究人员保持联系,追随他们,揭示了选择性的线上和线下参与和自我表现之间的纠缠。批判性地探索研究参与者对数字技术的差异化使用,以导航包括研究人员自己在内的社会环境,不仅改变了我们在经验、伦理和方法论方面对该领域的理解,而且还抵消了潜在的偷窥和威胁生命的跟踪行动的做法。
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Social Analysis
Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-
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2.20
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7.10%
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审稿时长
16 weeks
期刊介绍: Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.
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