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This book considers the challenges posed by fieldwork in centres of power to researchers in the social sciences, with a focus on deliberative assemblies. It includes work by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars united around a common interest in producing complementary knowledge about today’s political institutions based on qualitative approaches. The chapters feature various case studies on specific issues that arose from the authors’ fieldwork, as well as broader theoretical syntheses. The contributors offer some practical tools and solutions for others who would like to engage in this type of research, given the difficulties and complexities of doing fieldwork in centres of power and the lack of methodological resources currently available. The volume is valuable reading for anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others with an interest in the ethnography of politics.
Jonathan Chibois is an assistant researcher in political anthropology at the Laboratory of Political Anthropology (LAP). He holds a PhD from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.Samuel Shapiro is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Université Laval in Canada.
List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Doing Fieldwork in Centres of PowerJonathan Chibois and Samuel ShapiroPart 1 Where are the Boundaries of Institutions? Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro1 Negotiating and Influencing Public Policy in Jordan: The Parliament as a Point of EntryCamille Abescat2 From Offline Brussels to Online Dispersion. Where is the European Parliament? A Proposal to Explore a Complex, Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Site FieldworkSandrine Roginsky3 Doing Political Fieldwork in China: The Institutionalization of Deliberation and ConsultationRongxin LiPart 2 Must Fieldworkers Choose Between Being Insiders and Outsiders? Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro4 Parliamentary Ethnography: The Challenges of Fieldwork for an Insider in the Senate of ArgentinaLaura Ferreño5 Navigating Overlapping Methodological and Contextual Difficulties: ‘Following’ Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo/a”Gordana Subotic6 The Activist Researcher: Negotiating Responsibility for Land-Grabbing in the United NationsBirgit MüllerPart 3 What Does Collective Fieldwork Do to Research?Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro7 The Citizens’ Climate Convention: A Tale of an Ethnography of a Deliberative Arena Under PressureSimon Baeckelandt8 Collaborative Reflexive Inquiry Into Parliaments: Ethnographers Negotiating During Research on PoliticsCristiane Bernardes, Andrea Cornwall, Emma Crewe & Telma Hoyler9 Ethnography of Parliamentary Constituencies: Navigating the Sensitivities of Political Research in BangladeshZahir AhmedPart 4 Looking Back: Reflecting on Long-Term Research Trajectories Jonathan Chibois and Samuel Shapiro10. Getting to the Soul of Parliaments: Using Multi-Methods to Understand the Parliamentary Ecosystemby Cristina Leston-Bandeira11 From One Institution to Another: Three Investigations into Power StructuresIrène Bellier