Positionality: Identity, Standpoint and the Limits (and Possibilities) of Fieldwork

This article discusses the concept of positionality, which challenges the notion of a neutral, disembodied observer. For ethnographers, thinking about positionality means to attend to how fieldwork happens through interpersonal relationships that play out in complex and uneven social spaces. Drawing...

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Subtitles:"Special Issue: Critical Terms for the Ethnography of Religion"
Main Author: Selka, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2022
In: Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 92-100
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Eccentricity (Sociology) / Reflection (Psychology) / Methodology / Field-research / Ethnology
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
NCJ Ethics of science
ZA Social sciences
Further subjects:B Fieldwork
B Reflexivity
B Subjectivity
B Brazil
B Identity
B positionality
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