Framing the Field

A Companion to Social Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 146-160

  Sharp, Joanne ^a   Dowler, Lorraine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Driver's argument, that the field is "a region undergoing continual processes of construction by the fieldworker, inhabitants of the field, and those elsewhere"; Feminist and postcolonial challenges fieldwork tradition in geography, fixed and bounded and a separate space; Framing the field, geography's obsession with the field, local fieldwork; Geography's obsession with the field for "the geographer the ground is the primary document"; Geography, as a discipline roots in the field, established as an "aid to statecraft"; Katz's work, going beyond notions of multi site ethnographies a shift, ethnographic sites as fluid; New sites for fieldwork, emerging virtual spaces of online communities; The field presenting possibility of meeting and opening a true dialogue; Trajectory of geography's relationship with the field characterized as one of increasing complexity; Wolf (1996), expanding on politics of fieldwork contending that feminist methodologies will always be evolving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885984976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395211.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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