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75785-01 - Kurs: Under Pressure: Navigating Power and Emotions in Fieldwork (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2025 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende |
Ambre Elsa Alfredo (ambre.alfredo@unibas.ch)
Kaue Felipe Nogarotto Crima Bellini (k.crimabellini@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Immersive fieldwork practices have been extensively employed across the social sciences. However, more than a methodological exercise, fieldwork is an intricate landscape of power dynamics, unpredictability, and emotional engagement. This seminar, designed for Master’s or late undergraduate students, explores two critical dimensions of fieldwork: Power and Emotions. The first half of the course focuses on Power by examining how gender, sexuality, race, and positionality manifest in various ways and influence our experience of the field and the research process. Thinking through concepts such as ‘othering,’ we explore the frictions inherent to the power dynamics that shape interactions between researchers and participants, and the space itself. The second half of the course turns to Emotions, delving into the affective dimensions of fieldwork. Here, we look at how emotions permeate the research process—from personal likes, dislikes, wants, and needs to the complexities of being affected in the field. Through theoretical perspectives, writing assignments, and case studies, the course aims to create a space to discuss and reflect on fieldwork's challenges and complexities and equip participants with tools and strategies for navigating the emotions and power dynamics that arise in fieldwork. |
| Literatur | Recommended Readings: Ahmed, Sara. 2006. "Introduction: Find Your Way." In Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, 1-24. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388074-003 Annavarapu, Sneha. 2021. “Difficult Encounters, Fragmented Positionalities: gender, caste, and Hindutva in the field”. Engenderings (blog). December 1, 2021. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2021/12/01/difficult-encounters-fragmented-positionalities-gender-caste-and-hindutva-in-the-field/ Behar, Ruth. 1996. “Chapter 1. The Vulnerable Observer”. In The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, 1-33. Beacon Press. Berry, Maya J., Claudia Chávez Argüelles, Shanya Cordis, Sarah Ihmoud, and Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada. 2017. “Toward a Fugitive Anthropology: Gender, Race, and Violence in the Field.” Cultural Anthropology 32 (4): 537–565. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.05. Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1937. "Appendix IV. Some Reminiscences and Reflections on Fieldwork." In Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, 240-254. Clarendon Press. Favret-Saada, Jeanne. 2012. “Being affected.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2 (1), 435-445. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau2.1.019. Feldman, Gregory. 2011. "If Ethnography Is More than Participant-Observation, Then Relations Are More than Connections: The Case for Nonlocal Ethnography in a World of Apparatuses." Anthropological Theory 11 (4): 375-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499611429904 Kopenawa, Davi, and Bruce Albert. 2013. "How this book was written." In The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, 424-458. Harvard University Press. Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2004. "Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation," Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 2(1): 3-20. Available at: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol2/iss1/1 |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | The number of participants is limited to 25 students. The places are assigned according to date of enrollment and subject of study. Priority will be given to the subjects listed under "modules". |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12.15-14.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Dienstag 18.02.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 25.02.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 04.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 11.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Fasnachstferien |
| Dienstag 18.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 25.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 01.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 08.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 15.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 22.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 29.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 06.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 13.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 20.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Dienstag 27.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Module |
Modul: Grundlagen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul: Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Methoden der Nahoststudien und der Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Bachelor Studienfach: Nahoststudien) Modul: Methoden der Near & Middle Eastern Studies und der Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Master Studienfach: Near & Middle Eastern Studies) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |