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Book Launch: Caitlin Procter & Branwen Spector
Thursday 10 October 2024, 04:00pm - 06:00pm
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BOOK LAUNCH EVENT

Thursday 10 October 2024,  4:00-6:00pm BST

This is a hybrid event.

To join online via Zoom, register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FVWbAZW3Qxa7P3lysP3T7w#/registration

To join us in Person at the RAI (50 Fitzroy Street, W1T5BT London), register here: 
https://buytickets.at/royalanthropologicalinstituteofgreatbritain/1398892 


Inclusive Ethnography

Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical

 

with editors

Dr Caitlin Procter - European University Institute
Dr Branwen Spector - University College London

chaired by Dr Toyin Agbetu - University College London

 

How can you do ethnographic field research in a safe way for you and the people you work with?

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.

 

Whether you’re an undergraduate student or an experienced researcher, this book will help you do fieldwork that is safer, healthier and more ethical.



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The book is published by Sage College Publishing (March 2024)
More info here: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/inclusive-ethnography/book284396  

 

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Biographical notes

Dr Caitlin Procter is a part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute, and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her work examines the experiences of children and youth in contexts of conflict and forced displacement, with a regional focus on Palestine, Jordan and Syria. She teaches on research methods and ethics and is a co-founder of The New Ethnographer.

Dr Branwen Spector is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London. She conducts research on occupation, mobility, and infrastructure in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, Ukraine, and Lebanon. She teaches on research methods, ethics, social media, and decolonisation and is a co-founder of The New Ethnographer.

Dr Toyin Agbetu has been a community educator at Ligali, a grassroots, Pan Africanist, human-rights based organisation for over twenty years. As part of an activist collective, Toyin has adopted a scholar-activist approach to challenging Afriphobia and the misrepresentation of African people, culture and history in the media and public spaces. He studied Education and Community Development at the University of East London, and Social and Cultural anthropology at University College London (UCL). His research interests include education and community development, counterpublics and urban social movements, cultures of protest, museum activism, decolonisation, gentrification and governmental/institutional forms of activism.



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