When anthropologists are accompanied by children and other family members during fieldwork it is not just a challenge, but also an enrichment for research and the research environment. Through accompanying family members, methodological, theoretical and ethical questions are raised for the discipline, which have not yet been exhaustively investigated and discussed and which can provide important impulses for the entire discipline.
The working group „Family in the Field“ deals with questions of accompanied field research and offers a permanent platform for anthropologists to exchange information and experiences. It offers a space to discuss theoretical, methodological, ethical and organizational questions concerning field research and family. Furthermore, the working group intensifies and consolidates the dialogue with funding organizations in Germany and Europe.
Through continuous exchange, the working group aims to encourage funding organizations to adapt their instruments and improve administrative guidelines according to the requirements and implications of accompanied long-term fieldwork.
The workings group was founded at the 2021 DGSKA meeting in Bremen.
The founding members are Michaela Haug, Susanne Fehlings, Rosalie Stolz, Judit Tavakoli, and Sophia Thubauville. The founding of the working group was preceded by workshops on fieldwork and family at the universities of Cologne (2019) and Frankfurt am Main (2020).
Speaker
Sophia Thubauville (Frobenius Institute Frankfurt), thubauville@em.uni-fankfurt.de
Deputy Speakers
Julia Koch (University of Göttingen), julia.koch@uni-goettingen.de
Judit Tavakoli (Goethe University Frankfurt), j.tavakoli@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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