International studies scholarship has benefitted from insights from anthropology, peace and conflict studies, geography, and other disciplines to craft a thoughtful set of reflections and considerations for researchers to take with them “into the field” when they embark on “fieldwork.” In this essay, we map out a history of critical approaches to fieldwork, starting with the encounters that initially encouraged reflection on the positionality of the researcher and the power dynamics of research. Building on decolonial feminist scholarship, we show how a commitment to reflexive practice “in the field” has developed further, through a reflection on the self as a researcher and on “the field” as a construct. This ethical and political commitment prompts a rethinking of key concepts in fieldwork (and research more generally), including those of “the researcher,” “the research participant” (or “population”), “expertise,” and what constitutes “data” and “knowledge.” We argue that a preferable approach to critical fieldwork is grounded in feminist and decolonial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist politics. This approach is committed not just to reflecting critically on “the field” and the interactions of the researcher within it but also to challenging the divisions, exclusions, and structures of oppression that sustain the separations between “here” and “there,” “researcher” and “researched,” and “knower" and “known.”

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田野调查的非殖民主义女权主义政治：以社区为中心、反思性和爱心责任

国际研究奖学金受益于人类学、和平与冲突研究、地理学和其他学科的见解，为研究人员在开始“实地考察”时提供了一套深思熟虑的反思和考虑，以便他们“进入实地”。在本文中，我们从最初鼓励对研究人员的立场和研究的权力动态进行反思的遭遇开始，描绘了实地考察批判方法的历史。在非殖民主义女权主义学术的基础上，我们通过对作为研究者的自我和作为建构的“领域”的反思，展示了对“领域”反思实践的承诺是如何进一步发展的。这种道德和政治承诺促使人们重新思考实地工作（以及更广泛的研究）中的关键概念，包括“研究人员”、“研究参与者”（或“群体”）、“专业知识”以及什么构成“数据”和“知识”。我们认为，批判性田野工作的更好方法是建立在女权主义和非殖民主义、反种族主义、反资本主义政治的基础上。这种方法不仅致力于批判性地反思“领域”和研究人员在其中的互动，而且致力于挑战维持“这里”和“那里”之间分离的分裂、排斥和压迫结构。 ”和“研究过”、“知道者”和“已知”。