Academic motherhood and fieldwork
Juggling time, emotions, and competing demands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katy Jenkins (0000-0002-9174-3648, Centre for International Development Northumbria University Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 693-704 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12376 |
| OpenAlex | W3006429506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 48 |
The idea and practice of going “into the field” to conduct research and gather data is a deeply rooted aspect of Geography as a discipline. For global North Development Geographers, among others, this usually entails travelling to, and spending periods of time in, often far‐flung parts of the global South. Forging a successful academic career as a Development Geographer in the UK is therefore to some extent predicated on mobility. This paper aims to critically engage with the gendered aspects of this expected mobility, focusing on the challenges and time constraints that are apparent when conducting overseas fieldwork as a mother, unaccompanied by her children. The paper emphasises the emotion work that is entailed in balancing the competing demands of overseas fieldwork and mothering, and begins to think through the implications of these challenges in terms of the types of knowledge we produce, as well as in relation to gender equality within the academy
Economic geography · Economics · Field (mathematics · Geographer · Human geography · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Rural development and sustainability
Who Moves, Where and Why
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How motherhood reshapes ethnography
Situating Reproduction
Confronting the Climate Crisis
Academics’ perceptions of what it means to be both a parent and an academic
Not just parenting in the field
For fieldwork in geography
Gender and academic employment in changing times
Striking the balance between academic profession and family
El tiempo en el conflicto trabajo-vida
Narrativas de riesgo, confianza y responsabilidad en el uso de Inteligencia Artificial Generativa (IAg)
Where do gender differences lie? Critically reviewing the research literature on academic employment from a gender standpoint
Teaching and learning emotional geographies
Significant nothingness” in geographical fieldwork
Care and the academy
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare
Defiant Women of the Sea
But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge
Masculinist Epistemologies and the Politics of Fieldwork in Latin Americanist Geography
The Time Bind
Feminism and geography
Positionality and Praxis
Far from Being “Home Alone”
Academic Motherhood
"He's Too Cold!" Children and the Limits of Culture on a Greek Island
Making Mutual Sense
Fieldwork ... With Family
Transnational academic mobility and gender
Care-work on fieldwork
Balancing Work–family Life in Academia
Women Academics and Work–Life Balance
Women anti-mining activists’ narratives of everyday resistance in the Andes
Why I Feel Guilty All the Time
Situating knowledges
Gender, ethics and empowerment
Interviewing women
Being There’
Doing Feminist Research
Unearthing Women's Anti‐Mining Activism in the Andes
Toward a Feminist Historiography of Geography
Women on the edge
The (re)making of the western ‘geographical tradition’
Muddy glee’
Commentary
Sleepless in academia
Mobile phone parenting
Women in the Field
For 'emotional fieldwork' in critical geopolitical research on violence and terrorism
Mothers in the Field
Using Skype to Mother
Flexible and Fixed Times Working in the Academy
Civil society activists and vulnerability in South India
Waiting, power and time in ethnographic and community-based research
Hard Labour
Work-related travel, gender and family obligations
Conceiving and Investigating Motherhood
Why emotion work matters
Short-Term Ethnography
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |