Family relations and normalising women in the field

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• Reading group for discussion
• Thursday 02 March 2023, 10:00-12:00
• Room S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Rebecca Roberts.

How do we negotiate our familial and professional relationships while in the field? Can the private and the professional self truly be separate, even when far away from home? What can be done differently in planning and organising fieldwork to make it more inclusive for women with small children? What are the provisions to make women feel more comfortable to participate in fieldwork? How central is fieldwork to our work? What and who is excluded with a heavy focus on fieldwork for primary data collection?

Core reading:

DE SILVA , Kalinga Menusha, & GANDHI , Kanchan.(2018). “Daughter” as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field. Area, 51(4), 662-669. https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3030

https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/36998/

This talk is part of the South Asia: Women in the Field series.

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• Room S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT
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