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Title: | Selfies and self-fictions calibrating co-presence in and of ‘the field’ |
Authors: | Chua, L |
Keywords: | anthropological self;Borneo;co-presence;fictions;orangutan conservation;social media |
Issue Date: | 1-Mar-2021 |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Citation: | Chua, L. (2021) 'Selfies and self-fictions calibrating co-presence in and of ‘the field’', Social Analysis, 65 (1), pp. 151 - 161. doi: 10.3167/sa.2020.650111. |
Abstract: | Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021. Through what fictions do anthropologists become co-present in ‘the field’? And what happens when ‘the field’ becomes co-present in anthropologists’ lives? In this article, I reflexively contrast two experiences of fieldwork connectedness: first, the changes to my interactions with Bidayuh villagers in rural Borneo since 2003, and, second, my recent engagement with the social media-scape of orangutan conservation. Both examples shed light on the methodological and ethical questions about the self-fictions through which anthropologists create our presence in the field—and how those fields assert their presence beyond our research projects. Recent technological developments, I suggest, thus underscore fundamental questions of how to calibrate fieldwork relations and where to locate the boundaries and openings of the anthropological self—a process that we cannot entirely control. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/26459 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2020.650111 |
ISSN: | 0155-977X |
Other Identifiers: | ORCID iD: Liana Chua https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7518-8181 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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