Playing the Field: Questions of Fieldwork in Geography

摘要: Many questions-practical, strategic, political, ethical, personal-are raised by conducting field research. Some of these seem, or are constituted as, separate from the “research itself,” yet integral to it. In this paper I attempt cut through breach that divides doing fieldwork and itself addressing what constitutes “field,” a researcher, data under contemporary conditions globalization. Drawing on my work in New York City Sudan, argue interrogating multiple positionings intellectuals means which knowledge is produced exchanged, researchers those with whom they can find common ground construct politics engagement does not compartmentalize social actors along solitary axes.