(Un) exceptional times
Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2404367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilia Farfán-Méndez (0000-0003-2757-4832, University of California San Diego, corresponding author), Marcos Vizcarra (Revista Espejo, Mexico) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1385-1403 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14687941241264667 |
| OpenAlex | W4401466623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
From the positionality of a Mexican scholar in security studies who identifies as female and an investigative journalist born and working in Sinaloa, Mexico, this article builds on existing scholarship examining the positionality of local stakeholders who are integral to the production of knowledge in conflict settings. In early 2021, Mexico had the world's third-highest number of deaths caused by Covid-19. Additionally, close to 80,000 people were officially missing and 52,000 remains in state custody lacked identification. In this context, civil society groups raised concerns about the proper handling of bodies, fearing cremation prior to identification of the remains. The article highlights two phenomena as evidence of a reflexivity process followed by the authors: first, for mothers searching for their children, Covid-19 was an additional life-threatening risk (not the main health risk, as in the general population). Second, we consider how global pandemics produce compounding crises in contexts of chronic violence and vulnerability, while simultaneously bolstering advantages for scholars in the Global North. The article is a call to action for more ethical qualitative research methodologies within the emerging social science community working on illicit economies and extralegal actors
Criminology · Economic growth · Ethnography · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Population · Public relations · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Afterword
Exploring the Backstage
Research Brokers, Researcher Identities and Affective Performances
The fallacy of the instrumental gate? Contextualising the process of gaining access through gatekeepers
Situating knowledges
Frames of war
Beyond the Field
Ethics Abroad
Agaciro, vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda
Gender
Power and positionality
Confronting Selection Bias
Entangled Memory
Finding Meaning in Memory
(Young) Men With Big Guns
Local Positionality in the Production of Knowledge in Northern Uganda
Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts
Studying insecurity from relative safety - Dealing with methodological blind spots
Recognizing research participants' fluid positionalities in (post-)conflict zones
The elite delusion
Dancing with danger
Five stories of accidental ethnography
Now I see it, now I don't
Assistants, Guides, Collaborators, Friends
Relations of difference
Social Memory Studies
The Primacy of the Ethical
Real governance of the Covid-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa
Intersectionality and Social Explanation in Social Science Research
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |