Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo

This contribution applies a reflexive approach to my diversified fieldworks carried out in some contexts that policies, social sciences and civil society call ‘marginal’ – albeit moved by very different perspectives and intentions –, bringing out the demand of people towards the anthropologist to be...

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Main Author: Sabina Tosi Cambini
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: Dipartimento Culture e Società - Università di Palermo 2023-06-01
Series:Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/aam/6674
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description This contribution applies a reflexive approach to my diversified fieldworks carried out in some contexts that policies, social sciences and civil society call ‘marginal’ – albeit moved by very different perspectives and intentions –, bringing out the demand of people towards the anthropologist to be able to develop a ‘gentle’ relationship, capable of ‘culturally’ taking into account their biographies and their social ‘position’ without trapping them either in the first or in the second; and, therefore, investigating the meso and macro structural aspects of this positioning as well as their search for a 'good life'. These two aspects have been kept constantly connected also in the applied tension of the discipline, which for many aspects and years has also been inseparable from my ethnographic research. Staying inside people's life contexts to understand them and 'act' with them, has also made projects 'flesh': taking their daily lives 'seriously', their hesitations, fears, discontinuities, permanent uncertainty, the intentionality of the anthropologist and of the subjects has changed over time and reciprocally – since the people themselves have taken my proposals 'seriously' –, co-constructing the intentionality itself through paths that are anything but linear. Starting from some 'points of support' deriving from the discussion around dark anthropology and the anthropology of the good (and of resistance), the text develops through cross-references between different times and fieldworks, intertwining biography and ethnography, so the contexts can reverberate in the anthropological reflection. The housing issue is the thread that leads us to the self-recovery building projects, through a path in which intentionality – in this text as in the fieldwork – is (re)generated and repositioned inside the relationship.
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spelling doaj-art-9a6eedd70ee44200a6a7033f3819a9e52025-01-30T14:20:59ZitaDipartimento Culture e Società - Università di PalermoArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo2038-32152023-06-01262510.4000/aam.6674Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campoSabina Tosi CambiniThis contribution applies a reflexive approach to my diversified fieldworks carried out in some contexts that policies, social sciences and civil society call ‘marginal’ – albeit moved by very different perspectives and intentions –, bringing out the demand of people towards the anthropologist to be able to develop a ‘gentle’ relationship, capable of ‘culturally’ taking into account their biographies and their social ‘position’ without trapping them either in the first or in the second; and, therefore, investigating the meso and macro structural aspects of this positioning as well as their search for a 'good life'. These two aspects have been kept constantly connected also in the applied tension of the discipline, which for many aspects and years has also been inseparable from my ethnographic research. Staying inside people's life contexts to understand them and 'act' with them, has also made projects 'flesh': taking their daily lives 'seriously', their hesitations, fears, discontinuities, permanent uncertainty, the intentionality of the anthropologist and of the subjects has changed over time and reciprocally – since the people themselves have taken my proposals 'seriously' –, co-constructing the intentionality itself through paths that are anything but linear. Starting from some 'points of support' deriving from the discussion around dark anthropology and the anthropology of the good (and of resistance), the text develops through cross-references between different times and fieldworks, intertwining biography and ethnography, so the contexts can reverberate in the anthropological reflection. The housing issue is the thread that leads us to the self-recovery building projects, through a path in which intentionality – in this text as in the fieldwork – is (re)generated and repositioned inside the relationship.https://journals.openedition.org/aam/6674engaged and reflexive ethnographyhousingstruggleuncertaintyfuture
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Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo
Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
engaged and reflexive ethnography
housing
struggle
uncertainty
future
title Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo
title_full Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo
title_fullStr Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo
title_full_unstemmed Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo
title_short Prendersi ‘gentilmente’ sul serio. Un’intima curvatura riflessiva sull’etnografia nella lotta e la co-costruzione di intenzionalità sul campo
title_sort prendersi gentilmente sul serio un intima curvatura riflessiva sull etnografia nella lotta e la co costruzione di intenzionalita sul campo
topic engaged and reflexive ethnography
housing
struggle
uncertainty
future
url https://journals.openedition.org/aam/6674
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