Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa
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Abstract
- Abstract
- en This tenth edition of BIGSASworks! explores different theoretical and methodological approaches to fieldwork experiences, practices, and challenges in African Studies. Employing multidisciplinary perspectives and lenses that include intersectionality, decolonization and reflexivity, the contributors discuss how fieldwork can question, upend and reconfigure the research experience. All contributions are underlined by a critical reflection on positionality, exploring the intersections between different positions emanating from parenting, age, marriage, race, motherhood, nationality, diaspora, language, and religion. In particular, there is a conscious reflection on often marginalized positions and perspectives in the field, underscored by a critical reflection of the positions of the contributors as attached to institutions in the global north, in relation to their work in the global south. The contributors reinforce the need for critical reflections on the practice of fieldwork in African studies, underscoring the intersections between lived experience and the research process.
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People & roles
- Authors
- Adjirakor, Nikitta
- Ajayi, Oladapo Opeyemi
- Alhassane, Najoum A.
- Ayeh, Anna Madeleine
- Diman, Hanza
- Yuan, Mingqing
- Place of publication
- Bayreuth
Origins & context
- Title
- Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa
- Publication type
- Working paper
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Institute of African Studies
- Series
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BIGSASworks!
Value Annotations
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- volume
- 10
- Date
- June 23, 2021
- Number in series
- 27
- pages
- VIII, 80
- Number of pages
- 80
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- 27 27 University of Bayreuth African Studies WORKING PAPERS Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa Nikitta Dede Adjirakor, Oladapo Opeyemi Ajayi, Hanza Diman & Mingqing Yuan works! 10 27 University of Bayreuth African Studies WORKING PAPERS Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa Nikitta Dede Adjirakor, Oladapo Opeyemi Ajayi, Hanza Diman and Mingqing Yuan, 2021 ii University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers 27 BIGSASworks! 10 Contents University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers iii BIGSASworks! iv About the Authors of this Issue v Foreword vi Clarissa Vierke Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa: An Introduction 1 Nikitta Dede Adjirakor, Oladapo Opeyemi Ajayi, Hanza Diman and Mingqing Yuan Using Oral History to Research Fuelwood Energy in Togo: Some Experiences from the Field 5 Hanza Diman Doing Fieldwork while Parenting: Between Methodological Benefits and Institutional Constraints 15 Anna Madeleine Ayeh The Challenges of Fieldwork “at Home” While Doing a PhD in Germany: "Insider" and "Outsider" Positionalities of a Single Researcher 29 Alhassane A. Najoum Fieldwork as Decolonising African Literary Studies: Researching Tanzanian Hip-hop and Spoken Word Poetry as a Ghanaian 40 Nikitta Dede Adjirakor Literary Fieldwork in Nairobi: Becoming Chinku and the “Third Mankind” 55 Mingqing Yuan Fùjí Music in Contemporary Yorùbá Urban Spaces in Nigeria: Reflections from the Field 68 Oladapo Opeyemi Ajayi The Reviewers of this Volume 78 Our latest BIGSASworks! Publications 79 Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa iii University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers The University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers are published by the Institute of African Studies (IAS), Bayreuth, Germany. The IAS promotes and coordinates African Studies involving scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines covering almost all faculties at the University… Read the full text about 42,567 words
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