Mobility of Mind: can we change our epistemic habit through sustained ethnographic encounters

Amanda Kearney

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Abstract

This chapter is dedicated to a reflexive consideration of how far the anthropologist might go when incorporating plurality into their research. Kearney explores the qualities of mobility and immobility of mind, reflecting on how we/she might know the world and respond to what we learn through ethnographic encounters. The chapter examines receptiveness and responsibility as residing with the anthropologist, in contexts where our collaborators dedicate years to teaching us. Should we be changed by what we learn in ethnographic exchanges? And if we are changed, can we speak to or write of that epistemological mobility? In response, this chapter considers how the non-Indigenous practitioner might change their epistemic habit and how this might further an intercultural commitment or decolonizing logic in social research.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReflexive Ethnographic Practice
Subtitle of host publicationthree generations of researchers in one place
EditorsAmanda Kearney, John Bradley
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Chapter3
Pages65-94
Number of pages30
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-34898-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-34897-7, 9783030348977
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jan 2020

Keywords

  • axiology
  • decolonization
  • epistemology
  • identity politics
  • Indigenous Australia
  • interculturalism
  • Oceania
  • ontology
  • reflexivity

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