Anthropology and #MeToo

Reimagining fieldwork

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ID18953245
AutoresTanya J King (0000-0001-7418-2343, Deakin University Burwood Australia, autor de correspondencia), D B Giles (0000-0002-8556-0562, Deakin University Burwood Australia), Mythily Meher (0000-0003-1280-2361, University of Melbourne Melbourne Australia), Hannah Gould (0000-0003-4260-1085, University of Melbourne Melbourne Australia)
Año2020
Volumen31
Número3
Páginas274-287
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/taja.12371
OpenAlexW3099179517
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas35

MeToo deals in the everyday ambiguous and intersectional, providing a space for discussion of the grey areas of sexual propriety. Since 2017, when the term was mobilised spectacularly in the US entertainment industry, other industries have undertaken an examination of their own practices and norms. In this paper we consider the implications of this political moment for the discipline of anthropology, and specifically the idea of ‘the field’ in the context of anthropological training in Australia. We argue that fieldwork is tacitly, and sometimes explicitly, fetishised by anthropologists as a transformative domain in which the normative rules of gendered interaction are temporarily suspended in favour of fruitfully engaging informants. Drawing on Bourdieu, we argue that ‘the field’ (the methodological and symbolic space) is a ‘field’ (a domain of recognition) that junior anthropologists enter with the expectation that they will suffer as a necessary part of their initiation, placing some PhD students at an enhanced risk of sexual violence. We reflect on the attitude of anthropologists to fieldwork as part of a professional illusio , a belief in the value of ‘playing the game’ that limits our capacity to modify our methodology to make it safer for neophytes and to reimagine a more just discipline

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Anthropology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Sports, Gender, and Society

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