Reconsidering Ethnographic Fieldwork

How can ethnographic research produce knowledge collaboratively with the people whose lifeworlds it investigates? Gilbert Rüegg brings participation and mediation together in a methodological approach that involves research partners in shaping questions, interpreting findings, and validating knowledge. He shows how different knowledge systems can be brought into dialogue without erasing their differences. The book places power asymmetries, representation, and epistemic justice at the centre of research practice. Combining a critique of conventional ethnographic methods with practical perspectives on dialogical and collaborative research, it addresses researchers and students in anthropology and the social sciences.