Becoming a Memsahib

Working with the Indian Administrative Service

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4139224
AutoresP Shurmer-Smith (University of Portsmouth), Pamela Shurmer‐smith (University of Portsmouth, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume30
Fascículo12
Páginas2163-2179
Data de publicação1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a302163
OpenAlexW1997339563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas23

Studying elites may seem to be one way of avoiding the guilt associated with the betrayals inherent in participant observation. However, work with members of the Indian Administrative Service showed them to be vulnerable in conditions of structural readjustment. The author examines the ways in which recognition of the multiple positionings of an ethnographer and those being studied can create a space for new collaborative relationships between researcher and researched. In this study the ethnographer found that the research relationship necessitated her acceptance of an imperialist past and a privileged status which she normally preferred to deny

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