The event took place on the 20th February 2020 as part of the CENDEP Work in Progress Meetings - Spring 2020 session. A presentation to provide some reflections of Fatima’s doctoral research in stigmatised communities and highlight her positionality as an insider and outsider while conducting two fieldworks, as I was an insider in Pakistan and as an outsider in Colombia. Fatima highlights the methodological and ethical considerations in both communities, and questions whether her positionality is risking to bring bias in her research, concluding with reflecting on whether the positionalities of the researcher have to be within the set boundaries of an insider and an outsider or is there a space between that is blurred. Or maybe were they evolving during the research process? Is it influencing the way we look at the data today? Or because of the blurred boundaries, now I look at both data the same way, simply as a researcher and not as an insider or an outsider.
Fatima Hashmi (PhD Student, CENDEP)
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2021-06-03