Doing Fieldwork in Centres of Power

The Case of Deliberative Assemblies

Jonathan Chibois, Samuel Shapiro (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032372402 (ISBN)

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This book considers the challenges posed by fieldwork in centres of power to researchers in the social sciences, with a focus on deliberative assemblies. It includes work by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars united around a common interest in producing complementary knowledge about today’s political institutions based on qualitative approaches. The chapters feature various case studies on specific issues that arose from the authors’ fieldwork, as well as broader theoretical syntheses. The contributors offer some practical tools and solutions for others who would like to engage in this type of research, given the difficulties and complexities of doing fieldwork in centres of power and the lack of methodological resources currently available. The volume is valuable reading for anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others with an interest in the ethnography of politics.

Jonathan Chibois is an assistant researcher in political anthropology at the Laboratory of Political Anthropology (LAP). He holds a PhD from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Samuel Shapiro is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Université Laval in Canada.

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Centres of Power

Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro

Part 1

Where are the Boundaries of Institutions?

Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro

1 Negotiating and Influencing Public Policy in Jordan: The Parliament as a Point of Entry

Camille Abescat

2 From Offline Brussels to Online Dispersion. Where is the European Parliament? A Proposal to Explore a Complex, Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Site Fieldwork

Sandrine Roginsky

3 Doing Political Fieldwork in China: The Institutionalization of Deliberation and Consultation

Rongxin Li

Part 2

Must Fieldworkers Choose Between Being Insiders and Outsiders?

Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro

4 Parliamentary Ethnography: The Challenges of Fieldwork for an Insider in the Senate of Argentina

Laura Ferreño

5 Navigating Overlapping Methodological and Contextual Difficulties: ‘Following’ Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo/a”

Gordana Subotic

6 The Activist Researcher: Negotiating Responsibility for Land-Grabbing in the United Nations

Birgit Müller

Part 3

What Does Collective Fieldwork Do to Research?

Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro

7 The Citizens’ Climate Convention: A Tale of an Ethnography of a Deliberative Arena Under Pressure

Simon Baeckelandt

8 Collaborative Reflexive Inquiry Into Parliaments: Ethnographers Negotiating During Research on Politics

Cristiane Bernardes, Andrea Cornwall, Emma Crewe & Telma Hoyler

9 Ethnography of Parliamentary Constituencies: Navigating the Sensitivities of Political Research in Bangladesh

Zahir Ahmed

Part 4

Looking Back: Reflecting on Long-Term Research Trajectories

Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro

10. Getting to the Soul of Parliaments: Using Multi-Methods to Understand the Parliamentary Ecosystem

by Cristina Leston-Bandeira

11 From One Institution to Another: Three Investigations into Power Structures

Irène Bellier

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Fieldwork and Ethnographic Research
Zusatzinfo	19 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-13	9781032372402 / 9781032372402
Zustand	Neuware