Emotions,ethnography and crack cocaine users |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, 4046 Smith Laboratory, 174 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1106, USA;2. Impact Research and Development Organization, P.O. Box 9171-40141, Kisumu, Kenya;3. Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, England WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom;4. Division of Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego, Central Research Services Facility (CRSF), La Jolla, CA 92093-0507, USA;5. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, England WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom;6. School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St. MS 0274, Reno, NV 89557, USA;1. Regional Medicines and Pharmacovigilance Centre (RELIS Vest), Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;2. Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;3. Section of Clinical Pharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, BOX 3903, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA;2. Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA;3. Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA;4. Center for Child and Family Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
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| Abstract: | There is little acknowledgement of researcher emotions in qualitative texts, especially so, within the context of street drug users. In these contexts, there is little reflection on how emotion is shaped in the field, not only with research participants, but also within the research environments. Based on a project which used visual ethnographic methods with a cohort of crack cocaine users in south London, this paper offers some reflection on these issues. It considers the practical, methodological and ethical tensions of managing relationships when repositioning ethnography within ‘visual ethnography’ to fit the remit of another qualitative project. Using both interview and observation data, I will exemplify this through two case study ‘scenes’ which follow the narrative of ‘Blood’.1 I firstly argue that the methodological, emotional, ethical, and pragmatic characteristics of ethnography become ‘magnified’ in the process of capturing visual data. Secondly, I also suggest that many of the ‘everyday’ interactional faculties available to ethnographers are difficult to maintain when using such visual methods in drug-using locations because awareness of social dynamics are amplified. My conclusion offers critical reflections and reflects on the emotional consequences for the researcher when withdrawing from the field. |
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