Outsider within

Speaking to Excursions across Cultures

Bibliographic Data

ID4367148
AuthorsMaria Jaschok (University of Oxford), Shui Jingjun (Henan Academy of Social Sciences), Jingjun Shui (Academy of Social Sciences)
Year2000
Volume1
Issue1
Pages33-58
Publication date2000-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647000022229056
OpenAlexW2149029738
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited28

Our conversation stems from a collaborative, fieldwork-based project on Chinese Islam, and on Chinese Muslim women's rights, within a secular political ideology and legislative rights framework. Dialogue was a defining feature throughout the years of field investigation and research, fusing autobiographical and cultural trajectories in what the anthropologist Kirsten Hastrup calls the 'betweenness' of intersubjectively created experience and knowledge. The premise for our conversation lies in the claim that insufficient attention has been paid to developments, which suggest alternatives to the near-axiomatic ethnographic relationship of outside researcher and native informant. In foregrounding the cross-cultural relationship between two researchers, we explore how in the course of fieldwork interaction, boundaries of self and familiar 'standpoints' are redrawn. We ask how the history of this collaborative relationship across cultures might question and redefine the classic ethnographic binary of inside and outside, the centre and the margin, the universal and the particular, the 'western feminist' and 'other women

Foregrounding · Asian Studies and History · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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