Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in Fieldwork

Steven Sampson; Anna Hedlund

Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in Fieldwork

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Abstract

Using examples from fieldwork among armed groups in Congo and pre-1989 Romania, this article argues against the prevailing ethos of ethnographers engagement with the people they study, in favor of a dynamic between engagement and detachment, what we call 'emotional management'. Two examples from our fieldwork are given, Hedlund on fieldwork with armed groups, Sampson on his informants being haraased by the Romanian secret police.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World
Editors	Nerina Weiss, Linda Green, Erella Grassiani
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	9
Pages	114-137
Number of pages	25
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2022 Jun 1

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Submitted book chapter, currently being reviewed by Routledge

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Social Anthropology

Keywords

Social Anthropology
Romania
Paranoia
ethnography
ethnographic fieldwork
Congo
Secret Police/Securitatea
surveillance
Emotions

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Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in Fieldwork

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