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Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion

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  • Mirjam Wajsberg

    (Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Radboud University, The Netherlands)

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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.

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  • Mirjam Wajsberg, 2020. "Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 126-135.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:socinc:v:8:y:2020:i:4:p:126-135
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    1. Mim Fox, 2019. "Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in Everyday Hospital Social Work: A Personal Narrative of Practitioner–Researcher Identity Transition," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(11), pages 1-9, November.
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    1. Kolar Aparna & Joris Schapendonk & Cesar Merlín-Escorza, 2020. "Method as Border: Tuning in to the Cacophony of Academic Backstages of Migration, Mobility and Border Studies," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 110-115.

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