The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World

Nerina Weiss is Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Oslo, Norway. Erella Grassiani is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Linda Green is Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, USA.

1 Entanglements of fieldwork: an introduction-Nerina Weiss; 2 Unspeakable: silences and silencing around fieldwork amid violence-Samira Marty; 3 Drawing on your inner anthropologist: some tools for violent and difficult ethnographic fields-Ivana Maček 4 A cautionary and hopeful tale about experiencing, thinking with, writing through, reflecting on, and teaching the emotional in ethnographic fieldwork-Jastinder Kaur; 5 The fieldwork of never alone: reframing access as relationships of care-Cari Tusing; 6 ‘You are one of us’, but I wasn’t: managing expectations and emotions when studying powerful security actors-Erella Grassiani; 7 Conversations about violence during fieldwork in Colombia-Colleen Alena O’Brien; 8 Staying sane and safe in Israel/Palestine: a foreign researcher’s reflections on fieldwork across boundaries-Andreas Hackl; 9 Involved and detached: emotional management in fieldwork-Anna Hedlund and Steven Sampson; 10 On Catalina’s silence and the things about her I still do not know how to say-Simone Toji; 11 Side effects: how fieldwork and ethnography helped me reclaim my life-Molly Hurley Depret; 12 Violent experiences, violent practices: caring and silence in anthropology-Lena Gross; 13 Hospitality and violence: writing for irresolution-Aya Musmar and Ann-Christin Zuntz; 14 Getting closer to the skin: writing as intensity, writing as feeling-Omer Aijazi; 15 Cherry blossoms and grilled lamb-Eva van Roekel Cordiviola; 16 Making common cause: Ethics as politics, anthropology as praxis: an afterword-Linda Green