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Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the ‘experimental collaborations’ that guided the authors in designing and conducting a collaborative ethnography of the social and geographical mobilities of disadvantaged European youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter is based on 30 online video conversations between the two authors: an Italian white male postdoctoral researcher and a Romanian Roma woman who spent most of her youth homeless in Madrid. Together, they examine the practical and conceptual implications of collaborative methodologies involving individuals with diverse socioeconomic and experiential backgrounds. They do so by tracing the multiple origins, arrangements and meanings of their collaboration through a deeply reflexive dialogue that recovers and validates their situated memories, emotions and experiences as legitimate sources of ethnographic knowledge. The chapter particularly emphasizes the potential of digital technologies in reconfiguring the modes of ethnographic collaboration, shedding light on the positive role of uncertainty and failure in reducing power asymmetries within participatory research encounters
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research |
Subtitle of host publication | Lessons from a Time of Crisis |
Editors | Martin Fotta, Paloma Gay y Blasco |
Publisher | Bristol University Press |
Chapter | 8 |
Pages | 109-129 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781529231878, 9781529231939 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781529231861 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 29 Jan 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Acknowledgements Work on this chapter has been funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska- Curie Grant Agreement no 846645. We would like to thank Jérôme Walter Gueguen for gifting Luxa with his unutilized computer and thus allowing her to write this chapter, and the two editors of this volume for their caring and insightful comments.Keywords
- Para-ethnographyy
- Digital ethnography
- Reflexivity
- Collaborative methodologies
- Collaborative ethnography
- Positionality
- Roma migration
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- Anthropology
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