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Lud
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2013
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vol. 97
267-290
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This article is based on research on the life of the blind which has been conducted since 2011. The main group of ethnographic consultants consists of seventeen blind people at the age of 18-40, part of whom live, work or study in Wroclaw. The attention of the researcher is generally focused on problems related to entering adulthood, building one’s own independence and – most importantly – on the diversity of strategies and tactics, which help blind individuals organise their relations with material environment, groups of the blind, the sighted, public institutions, etc. In this article the author describes the basic ethical and moral dilemmas which appeared during the research and tries to find their reasons in the specificity of the studied group, chosen methodology, as well as in the nature of ethnography in a wider sense. The article touches several important, specific issues: ethnographic intimacy and trust; instability of the borderline between the professional and private identity of the researcher; tension arising due to bringing up questions difficult for the subjects; the complexity of lying and loyalty matters during the research process. Seeing a great chance for ethnography in practising an extensive collaboration with the people who participated in the research, the author has attached a commentary on the article made by one of his ethnographic consultants.
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The aim of the essay is to discuss Kamil Pietrowiak’s work Świat po omacku. Etnograficzne studium (nie)widzenia i (nie)sprawności (2019) [The World by Feel: An Ethnographic Study of (Not) Seeing and (Dis)Ability]. In his book, Pietrowiak introduces and explains the cognitive limitations of blind people and social perceptions of blindness itself, which shape everyday life for people in this group. Pietrowiak’s analyses and reflections are based on the results of ethnographic research (collaborative ethnography) conducted among the blind, their family members and friends, and the employees of institutions and organizations working on their behalf. The author of the essay believes that Pietrowiak’s approach is innovative and that he has made a valuable contribution to the subject, especially in consideration of the general level of scholarly and popular knowledge of disabilities.
Lud
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2015
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vol. 99
271-295
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In this article, I draw on my research into the lives of blind people that has been conducted since 2011. Research participants consist of twenty two persons aged 18-43 living in Poland; most of them have been blind since their birth or early childhood. In my research I mainly focus on the diversity of strategies and tactics, which help blind individuals to construct their own lives, manage relations with other people and institutions,and relate to their own sense of otherness. In this article, I analyse experiences of the blind against the background of values and meanings attributed to the sense of sight and the concept of seeing and being visible in Western culture. Thus, the article aims at answering the following research questions: How do the blind understand and imagine the mechanism of vision and the ability to see? How do they utilise this knowledge for their own needs? How do they use words and expressions based on visual association and metaphors? How do they understand the elements of nonverbal communication, facial expressions, and gesticulation? How do they understand the concepts of appearance and image? In the process of describing the participants’ opinions and feelings, I attend to the stages and dimensions of this ‘visual socialisation’ of the blind and juxtapose it with a number of broader issues, such as disability, stigma management, femininity, and gender.
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The article presents the main assumptions and conditions of collaboration between the author and the vision-impaired research participants over several years of ethnographic research (2011–2017). Adopting the perspective of philosophy of dialogue, the author follows different stages of rapport, focusing on mutual expectations and emotions, as well as relationship dynamics and its underlying conditions in general. The author’s long-term research was inspired by concepts developed by Luke Lassiter in his collaborative ethnography and by Anna Wyka in her social research through shared experience, both of which marked the author’s ethical and methodological choices, including invitation extended to research participants to comment on the research findings. The second part of the article is based on research participants’ impressions and reflections on their role, engagement and relationship with the researcher.
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Tematem artykułu są ogólne założenia oraz sposoby realizacji etnografii opartej na współpracy (collaborative ethnography). Jednym z najważniejszych reprezentantów, teoretyków i praktyków tego podejścia jest Luke Eric Lassiter, zaś podobne idee na gruncie polskiej nauki sformułowała Anna Wyka w pracy Badacz społeczny wobec doświadczenia. Głównym postulatem omawianej propozycji metodologicznej jest włączenie uczestników badań w proces ich projektowania, wspólne dyskutowanie i analizowanie pojawiających się w trakcie pracy zagadnień, umożliwienie poszczególnym uczestnikom kształtowania lub komentowania ostatecznego raportu z badań, wspólne pisanie tekstów etnograficznych. Przyglądając się podstawowym pracom dotyczącym etnografii opartej na współpracy, a także odnosząc się do własnych praktyk badawczych, które są zainspirowane tym podejściem, chciałbym omówić jej warunki, zalety, możliwości, ograniczenia i pułapki.
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In this article, I try to outline general assumptions of collaborative ethnography and ways of their realization. An important representative, theorist, and practitioner of this approach is Luke Eric Lassiter; it should be mentioned here that in Polish qualitative sociology similar ideas were formulated by Anna Wyka in her work Badacz społeczny wobec doświadczenia. The main demand of this methodological proposal is to include interlocutors and consultants in the whole ethnographic process – from the designing and conceptualization stage, through the fieldwork, to the joint writing or making comments about the final report. Examining essential works on this topic and describing own ethnographical practice inspired by discussed approach, I try to follow through the most important conditions, possibilities, advantages, chances, limitations, and traps of collaborative ethnography.
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Tekst jest owocem współpracy między Kamilem Pietrowiakiem, prowadzącym badania etnograficzne na temat budowania dorosłości i samodzielności przez osoby niewidome (18–40 lat) oraz dwoma uczestniczkami badań – Sandrą Tworkowską i Joanną Zdobylak. Metodyczną i etyczną inspirację artykułu stanowią postulaty collaborative ethnography wyrażane przez Luke’a Erica Lassitera i badania społeczne przez wspólne doświadczenie Anny Wyki, według których warto dążyć do otwartej współpracy z uczestnikami badań na każdym etapie ich prowadzenia, w tym także w miarę możliwości pisać wraz z nimi wspólne teksty etnograficzne. Idąc za tą myślą, autorzy stworzyli wielogłosową prezentację wiedzy, odczuć i opinii na temat wybranych zagadnień związanych z życiem młodych osób niewidomych. Do poruszanych kwestii należą: wzajemne postrzeganie się i współżycie osób widzących i niewidomych; dominacja wizualnego modelu kultury; dostępność i dostosowanie różnych wymiarów świata do potrzeb osób niewidomych.
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The article is the result of collaboration between the author, whose ethnographical research focuses on the ways of building adulthood and self-reliance by blind people at the age of 18–40, and two of his consultants – Sandra Tworkowska and Joanna Zdobylak. Methodological and ethical inspiration for this undertaking are taken from in the Luke E. Lassiter’s conception of collaborative ethnography, as well as the idea of social research through shared experience promoted by Anna Wyka. According to these researchers, it is recommended to aim at open collaboration with interlocutors at all of the research stages, including writing ethnographic. Following these ideas, the authors created a polyphonic presentation of knowledge, feelings and opinions on the subjects connected with the life of the blind. These include the mutual perception and coexistence of the blind and the sighted, the domination of the visual model of culture and the accessibility of various elements of the world for needs of the blind.
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