O čem se nemluví: Příspěvek k problematice sexuality terénního výzkumníka

• Authors: Gabriela Fatková

Title variants

EN

WHAT WE USUALLY DON’T DISCUSS: AN ACCOUNT OF THE RESEARCHER’S SEXUALITY

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The essential attribute of socio-cultural anthropology and ethnography – fieldwork – is a process that interferes in the intimate lives of the population under observation, and that of the researcher as well. This study reconceptualises the issue of sexuality and gender, as they are for the individual the primary characteristic which determines a researcher’s position in field. The article highlights the discrepancy between the way fieldwork techniques are taught, and the real practice of fieldwork. One solution could entail relaxing methodological formalism, which may be in practice unachievable, and the removal of the taboo surrounding the whole issue. Different strategies for dealing with the researchers’ own sexuality and gender in the field, and their accompanying adaptation to the situation, are considered. Attention is paid to the issue of sexual violence in fieldwork.

Keywords

EN

fieldwork; sexuality; gender; reflexivity

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 36-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gabriela Fatková

• Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, Czech Republic