Becoming an ethnographer at prison: Reflections on the theoretical, methodological and subjective process of forming a research problem
In this article I consider dilemmas and methodological decisions which I have taken on throughout research and activism processes at prisons of the province of Santa Fe (Argentina) for 10 years. I propose to analyse the prison scenery as a field where to form a research problem and develop the pract...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/8377 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=runa&d=8377_oai |
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| Sumario: | In this article I consider dilemmas and methodological decisions which I have taken on throughout research and activism processes at prisons of the province of Santa Fe (Argentina) for 10 years. I propose to analyse the prison scenery as a field where to form a research problem and develop the practice of ethnography across two aspects: one is the decisions regarding how to build relationships where there are noticeable power struggles among areas; the other is the moral dilemmas likely to emerge in the research ¬¬ –particularly among women investigators– in an eminently violent and unequal environment. This reflexivity contributes to weigh the importance of making theoretical decisions pointing to produce a comprehensive yet localized approach of the problem under study and to build multiple relationships with people from diverse angles and positions within the ethnographic field. |
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