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ToolsRamakrishnan, Kavita (2017) 'Journeys of the I and We': Theorizing the ethnographic encounter over time. City, 21 (2). pp. 207-218. ISSN 1360-4813
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For ethnographers repeatedly engaged with the same community on the ‘margins’, questions of access, positionality and representation become compounded by temporal dynamism. Participant and researcher subjectivities change over time, thus destabilizing identities and calling into question where and how to frame conversations. I reflect on bridging the gap between theoretical perspectives on the ‘margins’ and how inhabitants of a Delhi resettlement colony variously describe notions of liminality—from the metaphoric, to the geographic and to the social—over a prolonged ethnographic encounter. By bringing the temporal ‘journey’ of the researcher and interlocutor to the fore, I seek to open up a conversation on situated knowledges. More specifically, I ask how (and if) urban ethnographers can adequately capture shifting aspirations and feelings of in-betweenness, while grappling with one’s own responsibility to politically engaged research. Finally, I discuss the political relevance of evolving attitudes towards life on the margins, with implications for knowledge production and representation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2017 16:13 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2023 13:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64968 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353344 |
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