On the border of being an insider and outsider : doing ethnography back home /
In July 2015, I traveled from the United States, where I had been living as an international student for 6 years, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, my home country, to conduct ethnographic research on Iranian women's work in traditionally masculine professions. In this case, I discuss my positio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2018.
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| Series: | SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In July 2015, I traveled from the United States, where I had been living as an international student for 6 years, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, my home country, to conduct ethnographic research on Iranian women's work in traditionally masculine professions. In this case, I discuss my positionality in relation to my participants as someone who was situated on the borders between being an insider and outsider. I will discuss how the years I had lived outside Iran and my positionality as a middle class, educated women in the United States made me an outsider to the lives of my participants in ways I did not expect. Through this, I hope to provide an example of the complexities of researcher's positionality when doing ethnographic fieldwork and its major impacts on the substance and quality of ethnographic data. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526435460 1526435462 |