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Following fatigue, feeling fatigue: a reflexive ethnography of emotion
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Abstract 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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
methodology; migration; fatigue; reflexivity; emotionality; ethnography
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
General Psychology
Free Keywords
migration studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 126-135
Journal
Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 4
Issue topic
Method as border: articulating "Inclusion/exclusion" as an academic concern in migration and border research in Europe
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed