IN SITU Collection

In Situ Collection – DS. Effigi

The“In Situ” dimension, which characterizes this collection, refers to field research that focuses on the local level and micro-phenomena. Emphasis is thus placed on the perspectives of the participants and the details of the daily lives of the people studied, by situating the discourses produced during the research within their context of utterance. Gaining an insider’s understanding of “social action” and social relations—including those that develop between the researcher and their hosts—is a matter of ethnographic commitment and allows for nuance in overarching scientific approaches that rely on overly broad categories of analysis. 

TheIn Situcollection thus presents texts that are part of another “epistemological break,” as they operate “from below,” starting from the everyday realities of fieldwork and its conversational contexts, to challenge both academic clichés and the “buzzwords” of public policy. To this end, the series aims to give prominence to alternative and innovative writing in the social sciences so that the voices of fieldwork are not stifled and so that the dynamics of social worlds and their full historicity resonate within it.   

Principal Investigators: Eric Perera & Yann Beldame

Published Works

Abstract

Edited by Beldame Y., Perera E., and Richard A.

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Call for Papers

a collective work titled BORDERLINE, which will address epistemological and methodological issues related to the ethnographic approach and fieldwork.

Deadline for submitting articles:Monday, January 27, 2025

Please send to: eric.perera@umontpellier.fr and yann.beldame@free.fr