Sinah Kloß - Othered Ethnography....

...The Influence of Intersectional Identities, Gendered Challenges and ‘Tropes of Hardship’ on Ethnographic Research.
Institutional training seldom prepares early-career researchers and students sufficiently for the
challenges ethnographers may face during empirical research. Too little attention is paid to the
significance of the researchers’ and the interlocutors’ intersectional identities and the impact they
have on the research process. Therefore, in this talk I focus on the specific challenges of ethnographic research as a gendered and embodied practice. I address the dynamic power relations between ethnographers, interlocutors and gatekeepers during anthropological fieldwork and ethnographic interviews. I illustrate how gendered, racialized and nationalized bodies and identities influence fieldwork experience, relationships and the collection and interpretation of research data.