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Anarchy in Athens
Based on extensive first-hand fieldwork, this book offers rare insight into activist ethnography and the role of emotions and violence in social movement reproduction, with implications extending far beyond the study locale.
Revolt and Revolution: Reaching for the Possible
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. This volume explores the complexities involved in understanding and elucidating revolutionary activity and provides nuanced analysis of political activity. This collection provides case studies of socio-political activity from across a variety of countries.
Aboriginal Sports Coaches, Community, and Culture
This book is the first to celebrate the stories of this group of Aboriginal mentors and leaders and present them in a form that is accessible to both academic and general audiences. In this book, Aboriginal sport coaches from all over Australia share stories about their involvement in sport and community, offering insight into the diverse experiences of Aboriginal people in settler colonial Australia. This collection amplifies the public voice of Aboriginal coaches who are transforming the social, cultural, and political lives of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. These stories have been overlooked in public discussion about sport and indigeneity. Frank and often funny, these intimate narratives provide insight into the unique experiences and attitudes of this group of coaches. This book deepens our understanding of the shared and contested history of Aboriginal peoples’ engagement with sport in Australia.
Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences
This edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical examples where fieldworkers have attempted to negotiate the complexities and risks of field research. Field research can be a risky and dangerous journey where the line between safety and danger can be crossed in quick time, often with little warning. These risks manifest in diverse and novel ways. They can be physical and psychological, ephemeral and enduring. They can impact the researchers, participants, collaborators and interviewees. Indeed, they can condition the very foundation of our processes of knowledge production. Fieldwork is no small stakes game. Covering research from Afghanistan, Chad, DR Congo, Greece, the Horn of Africa, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Palestine, India, Indonesia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Vietnam and Australia, each chapter highlights diverse, eclectic, raw and vulnerable narratives about risks experienced before, during and after the conduct of this research. This book is of great value to inexperienced and experienced fieldworkers alike.
Doing Research as a Native
"When I started fieldwork for my PhD dissertation, I was fresh out of Edward Schatz's qualitative methods graduate seminar at the University of Toronto. The seminar was based on his edited volume Political Ethnography (Schatz 2009), which I devoured, but I have only recently grasped the book's importance in my discipline of political science. Political Ethnography signaled that questions of positionality were finally being taken seriously by political scientists, many years after their integration in fields such as anthropology, sociology, and geography. Around the same time, the late Lee Ann Fujii, whose 2018 book Interviewing in Social Science Research in many ways defined the direction of qualitative methods in political science, gave a job talk in my department. Mesmerized by her account of how local ties shaped mass-scale violence in Rwanda, I asked Fujii to join my doctoral committee. Looking back, I realize just how much these formative mentors influenced what I would see as my key responsibilities during my first fieldwork trips to the former Yugoslavia region in 2010 and 2011"--
Democracy Here and Now
In Spain, on May 15, 2011, a movement against austerity measures began. In a time when representative democracies were under threat, 15M came to life as a virtuous and democratic response to the slide into far-right populism and authoritarianism. More than a social movement, 15M became a mode of being with transformative, democratizing potential. In Democracy Here and Now, Pablo Ouziel offers a grounded analysis of 15M. At the time of the movement and during the ensuing encampments, Ouziel travelled extensively, speaking to participants, and keeping an ongoing record of his conversations. Presenting an original participatory mode of research, the book reveals six types of intersubjective, "j...
Anthropology and Activism
This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex relationship between anthropology and activism. Activism has become a vibrant research topic within anthropology. Many scholars now embrace their own roles as engaged social actors, which has compelled reflexive attention to the anthropology/activism intersection and its implications. With contributions by emerging scholars as well as leading activist anthropologists, this volume illuminates the diverse ways in which the anthropology/activism relationship is being navigated. Chapters touch on key areas including environment and extraction, food sustainability and security, migration and human rights, health disparities and heal...
Anarchy in Athens
The battles between Athenian anarchists and the Greek state have received a high degree of media attention recently. But away from the intensity of street protests militants implement anarchist practices whose outcomes are far less visible. They feed the hungry and poor, protect migrants from fascist beatings and try to carve out an autonomous political, social and cultural space. Activists within the movement share politics centred on hostility to the capitalist state and all forms of domination, hierarchy and discrimination. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Athenian anarchists and anti-authoritarians, Anarchy in Athens unravels the internal complexities within this milieu and provides a better understanding of the forces that give the space its shape.
Position beziehen, Haltung zeigen!?
Inwiefern können, wollen und sollten sich Wissenschaftler:innen in ihrer professionellen Rolle gegenüber ihren Feldern und zu ethischen oder politischen Fragen öffentlich positionieren? Und wie wirkt sich dies auf unterschiedliche Aspekte des Forschungsprozesses und die anschließende Dissemination der Ergebnisse aus? Die Beiträge des Bandes beleuchten diese Fragen, die in beiden ethnologischen Disziplinen seit Jahrzehnten Gegenstand methodologischer und forschungsethischer Debatten sind, sowohl theoretisch als auch anhand konkreter Fallstudien. Sie beziehen sich dabei auf so unterschiedliche Felder wie Forschungen in Palästina, Präimplantationsdiagnostik, Volkstanz oder Ethnografien von Jugendbanden und rechten Bewegungen. Die dabei aufscheinenden Dilemmata und Zielkonflikte, Lösungsansätze und Formen des Umgangs mit dem Themenkomplex zeigen, dass Positionierungen und Haltungen oftmals selbst Effekte des Forschungsprozesses sind. Sie sind nicht vorab gegeben, sondern entfalten sich unter jeweils spezifischen Rahmenbedingungen und Situiertheiten dynamisch in der Interaktion zwischen Forschenden, Feldpartner:innen und institutionellen wie gesellschaftlichen Kontexten.
