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Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities Shalini Puri

Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities By Shalini Puri

Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities by Shalini Puri


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This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted their frames of analysis.

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Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South by Shalini Puri

This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted their frames of analysis. They explore how to make fieldwork legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the humanities and those who are seeking ways to undertake it.

About Shalini Puri

Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. Her edited collections include The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics, Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, and (with Lara Putnam) Caribbean Military Encounters.

Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, USA. Her most recent books include Mexican Public Intellectuals (with Stuart Day) and Despite all Adversities: Spanish American Queer Cinema (with Andres Lema Hincapie).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1. Debra A. Castillo and Shalini Puri

Introduction: Conjectures on Undisciplined Research

Memory, Conflict, Contestation

2. Shalini Puri

Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement

3. Naminata Diabate Women's Naked Protest in Africa: Comparative Literature and its Futures

4. Kavita Panjabi

Aesthetics in the Making of History: The Tebhaga Women's Movement in Bengal

Place, Performance, Practices

5. Jennifer Lynn Kelly
Locating Palestine within American Studies: Transitory Field Sites and Borrowed Methods

6. Neil Doshi

Absent Performances: Distant Fieldwork on Social Movement Theater of Algeria and India

7. Tori Holmes

Ethical Dilemmas in Studying Blogging by Favela Residents in Brazil

8. Rashmi Sadana

Reading Delhi, Writing Delhi: An Ethnography of Literature

Medium and Form

9. Lara Putnam

Daily Life and Digital Reach: Place-Based Research and History's Transnational Turn

10. Renato Rosaldo

Lessons from the Space between Languages: Notes on Poetry and Ethnography

Institutions, Organizations, Collaborations

11. Stephanie Newell

Researching the Cultural Politics of Dirt in Urban Africa

12. Paul Youngquist

Accidental Histories: Fieldwork Among the Maroons of Jamaica

13. Debra A. Castillo

Engagement and Pedagogy: Traveling with Students in Chiapas, Mexico

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NLS9781349928361
9781349928361
1349928364
Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South by Shalini Puri
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2016-12-15
267
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