Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion
This article takes the emotion of fatigue both as its analytical object as well as a methodological tool to engage in a reflexive ethnography, to question the categorical borders of researcher, researched and the field, in the politicised context of migration studies. I do so by drawing on ethnograp...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cogitatio
2020-11-01
|
| Series: | Social Inclusion |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/3394 |
| _version_ | 1818180099547070464 |
|---|---|
| author | Mirjam Wajsberg |
| author_facet | Mirjam Wajsberg |
| author_sort | Mirjam Wajsberg |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This article takes the emotion of fatigue both as its analytical object as well as a methodological tool to engage in a reflexive ethnography, to question the categorical borders of researcher, researched and the field, in the politicised context of migration studies. I do so by drawing on ethnographic material collected during my fieldwork between Athens, Hamburg and Copenhagen in 2019–2020. This article’s theoretical and conceptual framing is informed by feminist scholarship on emotions, as well as decolonial scholarship in migration studies. By bringing these theoretical threads into the conversation, I study the different qualities of fatigue, amongst others the collective; how fatigue circulates in and through the ethnographic field; and how it shapes relations between refugees, humanitarian aid workers, activists and researchers such as me. Following fatigue across and through its many different instances in this reflexive ethnography of emotions lays bare the uneven emotional geographies that exist and are (re-)produced in the encounters between actors in Europe’s migration control field. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-11T21:14:23Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-3c73551e723845e4b6d443fc3c1c3cdb |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2183-2803 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-11T21:14:23Z |
| publishDate | 2020-11-01 |
| publisher | Cogitatio |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Social Inclusion |
| spelling | doaj.art-3c73551e723845e4b6d443fc3c1c3cdb2022-12-22T00:50:38ZengCogitatioSocial Inclusion2183-28032020-11-018412613510.17645/si.v8i4.33941726Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of EmotionMirjam Wajsberg0Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Radboud University, The NetherlandsThis article takes the emotion of fatigue both as its analytical object as well as a methodological tool to engage in a reflexive ethnography, to question the categorical borders of researcher, researched and the field, in the politicised context of migration studies. I do so by drawing on ethnographic material collected during my fieldwork between Athens, Hamburg and Copenhagen in 2019–2020. This article’s theoretical and conceptual framing is informed by feminist scholarship on emotions, as well as decolonial scholarship in migration studies. By bringing these theoretical threads into the conversation, I study the different qualities of fatigue, amongst others the collective; how fatigue circulates in and through the ethnographic field; and how it shapes relations between refugees, humanitarian aid workers, activists and researchers such as me. Following fatigue across and through its many different instances in this reflexive ethnography of emotions lays bare the uneven emotional geographies that exist and are (re-)produced in the encounters between actors in Europe’s migration control field.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/3394emotionfatiguemethodologymigrationmigration studiesreflexive ethnography |
| spellingShingle | Mirjam Wajsberg Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion Social Inclusion emotion fatigue methodology migration migration studies reflexive ethnography |
| title | Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion |
| title_full | Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion |
| title_fullStr | Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion |
| title_short | Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion |
| title_sort | following fatigue feeling fatigue a reflexive ethnography of emotion |
| topic | emotion fatigue methodology migration migration studies reflexive ethnography |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/3394 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT mirjamwajsberg followingfatiguefeelingfatigueareflexiveethnographyofemotion |