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.
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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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