Dr Procter will present her new co-edited volume on Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical. In this nuanced, candid book, researchers from across the globe discuss core challenges faced by ethnographers, reflecting on research from preparation to dissemination and how identity interacts with the realities of doing fieldwork. Building on the work of the editors’ The New Ethnographer Project, which has been seeking to change the way ethnographic methods are approached and taught since 2018, the book: promotes an inclusive approach that invites you to learn from the challenges faced by a diverse range of scholars; addresses underexplored issues including emotional and physical safety in the face of ableism, homophobia, and racism; challenges assumptions of what it means to produce knowledge by conducting fieldwork.
Dr Procter will start the session with a brief presentation outlining the book's content and key arguments. Following this, Prof. Jeff Checkel will serve as the discussant. The session will conclude with a Q&A and an open discussion with the audience.
About the speaker:
Caitlin Procter is a part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre. She is a political anthropologist and conducts research on childhood and youth, conflict, forced migration, in the Middle East and in Europe. She has conducted field research in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and has recently started working on Italy. At the MPC, she works on the protection of irregular migrants in Europe, with a focus on the work conditions and family lives. Caitlin is also a Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where her research explores the return and reintegration of children and youth in Northeast Syria and in Tunisia.
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