کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
946768 926217 2012 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
I crashed the boat and wept: Localizing the “field” in critical geographic practice
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی اجتماعی
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I crashed the boat and wept: Localizing the “field” in critical geographic practice
چکیده انگلیسی

Geographers often practice “fieldwork” for research, physically traveling between field and the academy. While critical scholars have contemplated their positionality in the field, what gets overlooked is how academic constructions of their “field” can discount indigenous peoples’ knowledges of “home.” Because academics’ representations of “the field” affirm the subject/object binary, this ontology allows indigenous peoples’ knowledges to be criticized in their emotional expressions of their homelands. In this paper I describe my practices of “field” work to disrupt this ontology—and in so doing, what emerges is my deeply emotional engagement with this “field,” produced through the network of materialities and beings with whom I worked. Network ontologies allow more space for discussing the emotional and affective experiences of a field site, including researcher uncertainty and responsibility. Attending to both conscious and unconscious motives to action is a more rigorous critical practice, and representing emotions can at once benefit research goals (emotional engagements leading to new insights), and lead to new politics of knowledge production and representation: such as opening a space for indigenous peoples to be recognized as legitimate spokespersons about their own beloved landscapes.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Emotion, Space and Society - Volume 5, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 192–200
نویسندگان
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