Article ID: CBB873960993

Mapping Superpositionality in Global Ethnography (March 2018)

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Science studies scholars often study up to high-tech elites who produce and design scientific knowledge and technology. Methodological tension begins when you pair a desire to study down to less economically developed countries, with the desire to study up to high-tech elites within them. This becomes further complicated when the ethnographer and his/her informants share professional interests and credentials. In these situations, the researcher has high status because of geopolitical privilege. However, the researcher is neither a high-tech elite nor a local cultural elite. How might the ethnographer successfully access and navigate field sites imbued with these unseen power differentials? There are currently no visual mapping tools to enhance the process of reflexivity by feminist ethnographers, as they consider their globally embedded multiple, hierarchical, and situated positionality. This reflection methodology piece provides a tool to consider this phenomenon, as it exists across the Global North/South divide of power. Such a tool would be useful to northern ethnographers to better strategize ethics and access while avoiding complicity with structures of inequality and empowering their southern interlocutors.

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Authors & Contributors
Jacob, Marie-Andrée
Rayzberg, Margarita S.
Roumbanis, Lambros
Crooks, Roderic N.
Greenhough, Beth
Federico Brandmayr
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Ethics
Research
Expertise
Ethnography
Methodology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Kenya
Sweden
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Committee on Publication Ethics
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