ABSTRACT

This article aims to explore the methodological and analytical benefits of mobilizing field diaries when doing fieldwork research. Fieldwork necessitates spending months or years living and sharing the lives of those we are studying. It is thus about interactions and access, about emotions and power relations. Field diaries are particularly insightful in capturing the social interactions between the researcher and the informants, which inevitably impact fieldwork, data collection and the research results. In this paper, I argue that field diaries, if they provide opportunities for developing reflexive analysis, offer possibilities to incorporating participants’ points of view in our research process as well. They also constitute avenues to investigate the social structure of the community under study. The present reflection derives from the researcher experience of using field diaries when being back home from fieldwork.

摘要

本文旨在探讨在进行田野调查时动员田野日记的方法和分析优势。实地考察需要花费数月或数年的时间生活并分享我们正在研究的人的生活。因此，它是关于互动和访问，关于情感和权力关系的。实地日记在捕捉研究人员和线人之间的社会互动方面特别有见地，这不可避免地影响实地工作、数据收集和研究结果。在本文中，我认为田野日记，如果它们为发展反思性分析提供了机会，那么也为将参与者的观点纳入我们的研究过程提供了可能性。它们还构成了调查所研究社区的社会结构的途径。