Inicjacje terenowe i rozwojowy wymiar doświadczania „pola badawczego”. Opowieści o wojnie, zesłaniu i terenowym modus operandi

• Authors: Katarzyna Kość-Ryżko

Title variants

EN

Fieldworks initiations and the developmental dimension of the experience of „research field”: Tales of war, exile and the ethnographic modus operandi

Abstracts

EN

Ethnographic field research involves not only work, but also personal and existential experience. Sometimes it is routine, ordinary, and on schedule, but generally, it is not without difficulties and challenges. I discuss some of these in this article. The analysis is based on my own research experience, the common feature of which is the transgressive nature of experiences related by people and issues generally defined as “difficult”. My research projects involved war victims (exiles, refugees, deportees), i.e. people who often found themselves in life-threatening situations, had experienced loss, trauma and death of their relatives. Our meetings and interviews had cognitive, psychological and devel- opmental dimension, both in a personal and professional sense. I refer to these situations as “initiatory” experiences, as they constitute significant turning points in my perception of reality and my approach to research as a profession. In this paper, I discuss both meth- odological challenges related to research deemed difficult, as well as dilemmas related to ethnographic epistemology and the auto-ethnographic turn. My main concern here is whether and how to write about what is happening on the margins of field research and the personal struggles involved in such research.

Keywords

EN

auto-ethnography; fieldwork; ethno-psychology; refugees; exile; methodology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 383-403

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Kość-Ryżko

• Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, Warszawa

Identifiers

DOI

10.26881/etno.2021.7.22

Biblioteka Nauki

2092036