ABSTRACT Scholars have called for ethnographers to reveal the emotional and controversial aspects of fieldwork. Through analysis of our fieldwork with teens in the United States and Japan, this article documents how we, two adult researchers, attempted to address adultism—a pervasive system of oppression that deems young people inferior. We discuss three types of encounters which we believe reflect how adultism operated in our fieldwork and the challenges related to de-stabilising it. The encounters revealed specific patterns and manifestations of adultism including 1) how adults regulated young people’s identities, 2) our assumptions about what rapport and reciprocity with youth meant, and 3) the dilemmas of whether or not to deploy adult power to intervene in youth dynamics we found to be troublesome. This article suggests that adult researchers reflexively examine and document challenging and unsettling moments with youth in fieldwork in order to interrupt and unlearn adultist behaviours and beliefs.

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“他被允许暗恋你吗？” 与青年人打断野外工作

摘要学者们呼吁民族志学者揭示田野调查的情感和有争议的方面。通过对我们在美国和日本与青少年进行的田野调查的分析，本文记录了我们两个成年研究人员如何试图解决成年问题-一种普遍存在的压迫系统，认为年轻人的品行低下。我们讨论了三种相遇类型，我们认为它们反映了成人主义在实地调查中的运作方式以及与破坏稳定有关的挑战。这些遭遇揭示了成人主义的具体模式和表现，包括：1）成人如何调节年轻人的身份； 2）我们对与年轻人的融洽和互惠的假设； 3）是否部署成年人力量来干预青年动力的困境。我们发现很麻烦。