Positionality in ethnographic fieldwork: a male, 'native' researcher among migrant men.
A researcher's social identity not only affects the way data are gathered and interpreted, but it also impacts on how research participants perceive the researcher. During my ethnographic fieldwork on masculinities, conducted among Tajik men, I experienced difficulties in manoeuvring between my mult...
| Publicado en: | Central Asian Survey Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 465 - 474 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2025
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