This article explores the practical, ethical, and epistemological issues which arise when carrying out and sharing research in contexts of Italian migration, highlighting how greater reflexivity on our own geographic and historical location as researchers can productively inform and shape our understanding of sites of contact, exchange and confrontation in relation to contemporary Italy. Specifically, we write as researchers informed by ethnographic theories and practices, and who through our research have engaged in emplaced and embodied cultural encounters in sites which are identifiable as both transcultural and Italian. Drawing on vignettes from research in Italy and the UK, the article highlights some of the particular contradictions, opportunities and responsibilities generated by our respective positions. We address how our positionings as white, English and female scholars located within nationally-defined Italian Studies structures have raised pertinent questions of power, privilege and voice, as we place our own biographies and bodies, themselves shaped by specific colonial, national and local histories, into critical dialogue with those on and with whom we research. Through a discussion of these ‘irresolvable tensions’ of our research, we seek to practically engage with the broader imperative of finding new ways of studying and writing culture.

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置身与具身的相遇：意大利移民背景下跨文化研究的方法论反思

本文探讨了在意大利移民背景下开展和分享研究时出现的实际、伦理和认识论问题，强调研究人员如何对我们自己的地理和历史位置进行更大的反思，从而有效地告知和塑造我们对接触地点的理解，当代意大利的交流与对抗。具体来说，我们以研究人员的身份写作，了解人种学理论和实践，并且通过我们的研究，他们在可识别为跨文化和意大利的地点进行了安置和体现的文化相遇。本文借鉴意大利和英国研究的小插曲，强调了我们各自立场产生的一些特殊矛盾、机会和责任。我们解决了我们作为白人、英国和女性学者的定位如何在国家定义的意大利研究结构中提出了权力、特权和声音的相关问题，因为我们放置了我们自己的传记和身体，它们本身是由特定的殖民、国家和地方历史塑造的，与我们研究的人进行批判性对话。通过对我们研究中这些“无法解决的紧张局势”的讨论，我们寻求实际参与寻找研究和书写文化的新方法的更广泛的必要性。与我们研究的人进行批判性对话。通过对我们研究中这些“无法解决的紧张局势”的讨论，我们寻求实际参与寻找研究和书写文化的新方法的更广泛的必要性。与我们研究的人进行批判性对话。通过对我们研究中这些“无法解决的紧张局势”的讨论，我们寻求实际参与寻找研究和书写文化的新方法的更广泛的必要性。