Doing Feminist Ethnography in the 'Wilderness' Around My Hometown

Methodological Reflections

Bibliographic Data

ID2379503
AuthorsKirsti Pedersen Gurholt (0000-0002-6382-4803, F in nm ar ks sy ke hu se t, corresponding author), Kirsti Pedersen (0009-0002-0279-2702, Finnmark College, Norway)
Year1998
Volume33
Issue4
Pages393-402
Publication date1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269098033004006
OpenAlexW2017294884
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

This article discusses my experiences as an ethnographer in a 'wilderness' community located in far northern Norway. The main aim of the fieldwork was to study how the ideologies, practices and experiences of outdoor life structured relationships between women and men and how this, in turn, affected ideologies of gender. I analyse the relationships between the researcher and the informants as gendered actors and between the researcher and the social and cultural contexts of the research process. More specifically, I examine my fieldworker experiences in women-only, men-only, and gender-mixed but male-dominated settings. The analysis is linked to ongoing debates about reflexivity and 'situated knowledge' - how we know what we know and whose knowledge is visible and invisible

Ethnography · Gender relations · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Wilderness · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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