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

Book Overview

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

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137603313
• ISBN13: 9781137603319
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"