Decidedly visceral moments: emotion, embodiment and the social bond in ethnographic fieldwork Online publication date: Fri, 23-Mar-2012
by Erica Southgate
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion (IJWOE), Vol. 4, No. 3/4, 2011
Abstract: This paper is a reflexive analysis of emotion, embodiment and the social bond in ethnographic fieldwork conducted as part of a study of risk practices amongst sex workers in Australia between 2002-2005. Organised around Scheff's concept of primary emotions love, grief, joy and shame the paper draws on field notes from the study to develop a hidden ethnography of the emotional border crossing that can occur during ethnographic research and how this impacts upon the researcher's subjectivity and subsequent interpretation of the fieldwork experience. The paper contests the prevailing positivism of public health research which privileges realist accounts of research and the idea that fieldwork occurs in a linear manner.
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