Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists Reflections on Methods

THE ECOLOGY OF FEAR We tend to take fear for granted. We tend to think of fear as an instinctual reaction that applies to everyo ...

It is not only depopulated alleys and public spaces adorned with tacks and graffiti, however, that can make us feel wary of our ...

This fear has been fueled by media images, political treatises, and by the long culture of conflict and violence in the region. ...

the Arab world in the 19th and 20th centuries has been marked by power inequities between Western powers, their scientists and a ...

for themselves” (Pain, 2009, p. 481), that we may challenge dominant ecol- ogies of fear and give voice to the previously voicel ...

avoid checkpoint delays. Yet, it was also essential to see that Ramallah is a thriving city. Certainly, for locals, too, Ramalla ...

Ethnographers have therefore accumulated a wealth of insights into the unique challenges and desired fieldwork strategies in ris ...

Besides, working in conflict zones may also challenge conventional con- ceptions of research ethics as presupposed by institutio ...

Puzzled, I did as I was told. The day before the ceasefire there was a bus bombing in Tel Aviv and a raining down of missiles on ...

constructs.” In other words, the knowledge of the social sciences is to be based on in-depth and contextual understandings of pa ...

previously excluded groups, voices and knowledge unobtainable in any other way” (Lundy & McGovern, 2006,p. 58). Such local c ...

scientific methods in order to produce reliable results. Anthropologists should record, describe, and understand through the pow ...

Arguably then, researchers’ emotions need no longer be a distraction, but they provide a way to gain insight, create knowledge, ...

by cultures of violence, we may gauge how these conditions can impact local communities. Last but not least, the dangerous field ...

Richards, & Martin, 1990, p. 491). Thus the claim to be neutral and the attempt to position ones work as beyond politics ult ...

solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and so as to understand and advocate for the “inner logic” (Rottenburg, 2006) of e ...

the International Court of Justice (2004) used the term ‘Wall’ as the most accurate term to describe the “security fence” when u ...

paper for the session on “Doing Field Research in Dangerous Situations” held at The European Society for the Study of Symbolic I ...

Kye, A. (2008). (Re)negotiations: Towards a transformative geopolitics of fear and otherness. In R. Pain & S. J. Smith (Eds. ...

Rottenburg, R. (2006). Social constructivism and the enigma of strangeness. In R. Rottenburg, B. Schnepel, & S. Shimada (Eds ...