Frontier Ethnographies

Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By: Nafay Choudhury (Editor), Annika Schmeding (Editor)

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1 November 2024

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Ethnography destabilizes the notion of the frontier as merely a geographic space and conveys its limitations--that lead researchers to reflect on their methodological approaches. Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan by assembling voices of emerging scholars who have conducted field research within the region in the past two decades. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, researchers reflect on their own experiences of field research and how--faced with frontiers--they have been forced to reimagine or reconstruct their understanding of the social world.

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"There is a great deal to commend this volume ... there is no other collection of essays by fieldworkers who have worked in the region that addresses the dynamics of conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan and Afghanistan." * Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex

"I think this volume is one of the first groundbreaking editions to question conventional knowledge production based on 'ethnographies'." * Katja Mielke, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies

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