From La Monjita to La Hormiga

Reflections on Gender, Body and Power in Fieldwork

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3948340
AutoresNoelle K Brigden (0000-0002-2317-2935, Marquette University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas118-138
Fecha de publicación2021-01-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2019.1650740
OpenAlexW2968138527
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas27

Ethnography is widely accepted to be an embodied and experiential form of knowledge production. Gender, in particular, shapes fieldwork, influencing relationships between participants and researchers, access, and observation, and intersecting with race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other identity categories. Building on a rich tradition of reflexive feminist scholarship that explores this intersectionality, this article discusses how my own corporeal transformation to a muscular powerlifter changed both the nature of my fieldwork relationships and my research strategies over the course of a decade of local engagement in El Salvador. Ultimately, I argue that the embodied consequences of fieldwork and their challenge to patriarchy must be undertaken alongside research participants. Together we are collectively re-imagining gender

Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Human sexuality · Intersectionality · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics