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Crisis Ethnography: Emotions and Identity in Fieldwork during the Tunisian Revolution

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  • Yousfi Hèla

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Abdallah Chahrazad

    (UQAM - Département Management et Technologie - UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal)

Abstract

This paper describes an ethnographic journey in a crisis context. Using ethnographic data gathered at the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), the biggest union organization in Tunisia during three specific episodes (December 2010, February 2011 and December 2011), it aims to explore the emotional challenges facing anthropologists/ethnographers who study social movements in a crisis context and to reflect upon possible ways of dealing with them. In this chapter, we build upon our reflexion on doing ethnographic work in crisis contexts by addressing the subject of emotions from two different methodological angles: first as a resource, and second, as a critical tool in identity work for the ethnographer.

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  • Yousfi Hèla & Abdallah Chahrazad, 2020. "Crisis Ethnography: Emotions and Identity in Fieldwork during the Tunisian Revolution," Post-Print hal-02986227, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02986227
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003052456-23
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