On the border of being an insider and outsider : doing ethnography back home / Negin Sattari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sattari, Negin, author.

Series:

SAGE Research Methods. Cases.

SAGE Research Methods. Cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Iran.

Ethnology.

Intergroup relations.

United States.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5264-3546-2

9781526435460

OCLC:

1023830073