Reading Group: Fieldwork, Trust, and Individuality
Week 2: Wednesday 6 May 10am–12pm
Seminar Room 00.056, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
What is trust and why does it matter? Trust fostering within participants is a recurring topic in literature, particularly with regard to research ethics. Trust felt by researchers towards participants, on the other hand, is often a non-subject; yet it is crucial to our wellbeing. In this session, we will discuss the various facets of trust in ethnographic research.
Readings:
Pages 639-49 of Creese, Angela. “The Humanism of the Other in Sociolinguistic Ethnography.” Applied Linguistics Review 16, no. 2 (March 1, 2025): 629–51. doi:10.1515/applirev-2024-0086.
Mackley-Crump, Jared. “‘I Hope God Blesses You with a Beautiful Wife’: Negotiating Heteronormative Research Spaces as a Gay Man.” In The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology, edited by Jonathan P. J. Stock and Beverley Diamond, 1st ed., 170–81. Routledge, 2023. doi:10.4324/9781003043904-19.
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