Mothering from the Field

The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research

Bahiyyah M. Muhammad, Melanie-Angela Neuilly (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0057-1 (ISBN)

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Offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists' experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers' experiences.

The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood’s impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research.

Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order not just to promote healthier, more inclusive, nurturing, and supportive environments in physical, life, and social sciences, but also to revolutionize how we conceptualize research.

Bahiyyah M. Muhammad is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and criminology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Mélanie-Angela Neuilly is an associate professor in the department of criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University in Pullman.

Contents

Introduction1

MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY AND BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD

Part I Women and Mothers Doing Field Research:

What Do We Know? 9

MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY

1 Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond 11

KELLY WARD, LISA WOLF-WENDEL, AND LINDSEY MARCO

2 Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology 27

STACEY L. CAMP

Part II The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers 43

BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD

3 Malaria and Spider-Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three-Year-Old 47

KELLEY SAMS

4 Birthing in the Field 62

LYDIA ZACHER DIXON

5 Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home 76

CECILIA VINDROLA-PADROS

Part III Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support 89

BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD

6 Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies 91

BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MUNTAQUIM MUHAMMAD

7 Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student-Mom and Her Support Community 108

GRACE KARRAM STEPHENSON, JOHN STEPHENSON, AND JOANNE FLORENCE KARRAM

8 Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People’s Problems) 124

BRIAN C. WOLF

Part IV This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood 135

MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY

9 Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant 139

MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY

10 Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track 155

ANNE HARDGROVE

11 Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants 171

KIMBERLY GARLAND CAMPBELL

Part V What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies 181

MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY

12 Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork 185

SARAH KELMAN

13 “Manman, Poukisa Y’ap Rele M Blan?” (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti 201

MARYLYNN STECKLEY

14 Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother 222

DEIRDRE GUTHRIE

15 Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field 239

APRILLE ERICSSON, DAWN ERICSSON PROVINE, ARIELLE ERICSSON WHITE, MIKAE PROVINE, PIERRE ERICSSON, BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD, AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY

Part VI Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything! 251

BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD

16 “I Don’t Know How You Do It!”: Countering a Narrative That Presumes That Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible 253

RYANNE PILGERAM

17 Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children 264

BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD

Conclusion 272

BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY

Acknowledgments 281

Notes on Contributors 283

Index 293

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2019
Co-Autor	Kelly Ward, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Lindsey Alyssa Marco
Zusatzinfo	18 b-w 1 table
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-0057-6 / 1978800576
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0057-1 / 9781978800571
Zustand	Neuware