Frontier Ethnographies

Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Nafay Choudhury, Annika Schmeding (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-759-5 (ISBN)

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Ethnography destabilizes the notion of the frontier as merely a geographic space and conveys its limitations—that lead researchers to reflect on their methodological approaches. Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan by assembling voices of emerging scholars who have conducted field research within the region in the past two decades. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, researchers reflect on their own experiences of field research and how—faced with frontiers—they have been forced to reimagine or reconstruct their understanding of the social world.

Nafay Choudhury is a British Academy Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He has won several international prizes for his writings on legal pluralism and private governance, including the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article Prize and the Asian Law and Society Association Article Award.

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Preface

Introduction

Nafay Choudhury and Annika Schmeding

*This chapter is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from NIOD Institute.

Chapter 1. Strategies of Survival: Navigating Kabul’s Money Bazaars

Nafay Choudhury

Chapter 2. Obligation, Failure and the Promise of Migration

Annika Schmeding

Chapter 3. A Month in Coal Country

Abhilash Medhi and Abdul Ahad Mohammadi

Chapter 4. The Protest as Field Site: The Deh Mazang Suicide Attack and the Disruption of a Movement

Melissa Chiovenda

Chapter 5. All Women Are Equal, but ‘Begum Sahibas’ Are More Equal Than Others: Exploring Opinions of Upper Middle-Class Pakistani Women about Education

Saima Khan

Chapter 6. Women’s Worlds: Vignettes and Memories of Afghanistan

Farhana Rahman

Chapter 7. Familial Frontiers: Researching with Hindustani Musicians in Kabul

Michael Lindsey

Chapter 8. Drawing on the Frontier: Sketchbook-Cum-Journals and My Positionality as an Ethnographer of the Kalasha

Tom Crowley

Chapter 9. Kashmir as Fragments of My Diary

Omer Aijazi

Conclusion: Predicaments of the “AfPak” Frontier Ethnographers

M. Nazif Shahrani

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-759-1 / 1805397591
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-759-5 / 9781805397595
Zustand	Neuware