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On Reflexivity in Ethnographic Practice and Knowledge Production

Ethnography and Knowledge, Collective; (2021) On Reflexivity in Ethnographic Practice and Knowledge Production. Commoning Ethnography , 4 (1) pp. 5-22. 10.26686/ce.v4i1.6516. Green open access

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Abstract

Deployed as much during fieldwork as in writing, reflexivity is itself positioned, its saliency as an epistemological device having transformed over time and space. Re-tracing its initial absence, subsequent rise in popularity and eventual routinization in academia, we position ourselves against reflexivity’s near-total displacement today by a narrow and increasingly prevalent understanding of positionality. We argue for a return to a broader and more relational understanding of reflexivity, proposing a methodological program to achieve and maintain its critical, ethical and political edge. Our aim is to engage in conversation about the value of reflexivity as an iterative and collaborative ethnographic endeavour with potential to produce more relational and engaged knowledge about increasingly overbearing field-sites in the Arab region and beyond.

Type: Article
Title: On Reflexivity in Ethnographic Practice and Knowledge Production
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.26686/ce.v4i1.6516
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.26686/ce.v4i1.6516
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 Ethnography and Knowledge Collective. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Reflexivity, Ethnography, Knowledge, Collaboration, Arab region
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209118
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