How Identity Enriches and Complicates the Research Process: Reflections from Political Ecology Fieldwork

• Published in: The Professional geographer Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 38 - 47
• Main Author: Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Routledge 02.01.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: critical reflexivity; Data collection; Ecological research; Ecologists; Ecology; ecología política; Emotions; ethnographic immersion; Field study; Fieldwork; identidad; Identity; inmersión etnográfica; Political ecology; Politics; reflexibilidad crítica; Research subjects; Social relations; Submerging; trabajo de campo; 人种学熏陶; 实地考察; 批判自反性; 政治生态学; 身份

Among political ecologists, long-term ethnographic immersion is one of the key approaches to conducting fieldwork. This article reflects on how a researcher's identity enriches or complicates the immersed fieldwork process. Drawing on fieldwork in West Africa, it illuminates the challenges conf...