Redefining the field: Auto-ethnographic notes

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-118

  Söderström, Ola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

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CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; FIELDWORK; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 78651228143     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474010385984     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. These papers are the result of a doctoral conference organized in Switzerland in summer 2008 entitled 'Questioning the field'. Many thanks to the large group of colleagues and doctoral students with whom this conference was organized.
2. Oral communication, from ages ago.
3. S. Freidberg, 'On the Trail of the Global Green Bean: Methodological Considerations in Multi-Site Ethnography', Global Networks, 4, 2001, pp. 353-68.
4. 'Being There. There and There!', Ethnography, 4, 2003, pp. 201-16.
5. L. Watts and J. Urry, 'Moving Methods, Travelling Times', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26, 2008, pp. 860-74.
6. M. Buscher, J. Urry and K. Witchger (eds) Mobile Methods (London: Routledge, 2010).
7. Lin and Yeoh hereafter.
8. E. Watson, '"What a Dolt One Is": Language Learning and Fieldwork in Geography', Area, 36, 2004, pp. 59-68.
9. A. Fraser, 'Coded Spatialities of Fieldwork', Area, 39, 2007, pp. 242-5.
10. W. Moseley, 'Collaborating in the Field, Working for Change: Reflecting on Partnerships between Academics, Development Organizations and Rural Communities in Africa', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 28, 2007, pp. 334-47.
11. Inspired by postcolonial and feminist studies, Cindi Katz for instance called for an 'expanded field' including the practice and politics of our doing fieldwork. See Cindi Katz, 'All the World is Staged: Intellectuals and the Projects of Ethnography', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, 1992, pp. 495-510.
12. J. Sharp, 'Geography and Gender: Feminist Methodologies in Collaboration and in the Field', Progress in Human Geography, 29, 2005, pp. 304-9.
13. L. Bracken and E. Mawdsley, '"Muddy Glee": Rounding Out the Picture of Women and Physical Geography Fieldwork', Area, 36, 2004, pp. 280-6.
14. E. Chacko, 'Positionality and Praxis; Fieldwork Experiences In Rural India', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 25, 2004, pp. 51-63.
15. S. Moser, 'Personality: A New Positionality?', Area, 40, 2008, pp. 383-92.
16. F. Driver, 'Editorial: Field-Work in Geography', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 25, 2000, p. 267.
17. For work on the cultures of field knowledge see the special issue of cultural geographies on 'field cultures', 10(3), 2003.
18. For a more general use of autobiographies as 'fruitful ways to access the process of building a discipline', see P. Moss, Placing Autobiography in Geography (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), p. 1.