Building on an emerging scholarly literature that discusses methodological issues related to the safety of researchers, I explore the lived experiences of Western researchers who conducted fieldwork in authoritarian settings. Through an analysis of power as a relational phenomenon, the article examines the ways in which researchers are subject to diffuse topologies of power that can be deployed in various contexts and at various scales. Evidence suggests that as researchers immerse themselves into fieldwork, their everyday encounters with the authorities make them become progressively aware of their surroundings and of the fact that they might be being observed. Researchers thus discipline themselves and normalize a number of self-policing behaviours and practices that can significantly influence processes of knowledge production. Keywords: authoritarianism, disciplinary power, fieldwork, panopticon, methodology.

在讨论有关研究人员安全性的方法论问题的新兴学术文献的基础上，我探索了在威权环境下进行田野调查的西方研究人员的真实经验。通过对作为一种相关现象的权力的分析，本文研究了研究人员如何受制于可以在各种情况下和各种规模下部署的分散的权力拓扑的方法。有证据表明，当研究人员沉浸在野外工作中时，他们与当局的日常接触使他们逐渐意识到周围的环境以及可能被观察到的事实。因此，研究人员可以对自己进行纪律检查，并规范一些可以显着影响知识生产过程的自我监管行为和实践。关键字：威权主义，纪律处分，实地考察，全景，方法论。