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@article{ Cattaneo2006, title = {Investigating neorurals and squatters' lifestyles: personal and epistemological insights on participant observation and on the logic of ethnographic investigation}, author = {Cattaneo, Claudio}, journal = {Athenea Digital: Revista de Pensamiento e Investigacion Social}, number = {10}, pages = {16-40}, year = {2006}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-64229}, abstract = {In my PhD thesis in Environmental Science, I used fieldwork amongst 'neorural' communities in the Iberian Pyrenees, & direct participation amongst 'okupas' (squatters) in Barcelona, I reflect on the two methodologies (ethnographic investigation & participant observation) that I used, & I discuss their application with respect to the style & to the particular context of the investigation. The experience of living within the Barcelona squatting community predated the decision to do the rural fieldwork; so, I argue, the distinction between observer & observed is purely artificial. I discuss the epistemological implications.}, }