Dancing and Romancing with Infantry: Reflections on an Ethnography

Hockey, John C ORCID: 0000-0002-5826-8005 (2024) Dancing and Romancing with Infantry: Reflections on an Ethnography. Auto/Biography Review, 5 (1). pp. 54-70.

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Abstract

The literature on ethnographers doing research in dangerous and violent situations has not much to say on the complexity of motives, which propel the latter into such contexts. This paper examines the motives which propelled the author into doing research with the UK infantry including in an operational context. It links these motives to the author's biographical development over decades and examines practices and perceptions which helped sustain those motives when fieldwork became problematic. The paper combines auto-biographical memories (in italics) with field notes made during participant observation with infantry.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ethnography; Participant observation; Biography; Romance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) U Military Science > U Military Science (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Anne Pengelly
Date Deposited:	05 Dec 2024 14:39
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2024 15:00
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14617

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