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Feeling the refugee camp: Affectual research, bodies, and suspicion
Area ( IF 2.057 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-28 , DOI: 10.1111/area.12739
Hanno Brankamp 1, 2
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This paper advances debates in camp geographies and forced migration studies by centring the methodological import of emotions and affect in research on refugee camps. Camps are often spatial expressions of compassion, fear, care, suspicion, but also incubate hope, solidarity, and feelings of belonging among encamped communities. Researchers are never insulated from these complex emotions and affects. While qualitative, ethnographic, experiential, or otherwise sensory methods continue to be widely used in this field of study, the emotional entanglements that arise from the embodied encounters between researchers, residents, and camp spaces are not yet well understood. The paper argues that it is methodologically pertinent to not simply incorporate such affectual intensities into existing readings of the camp as an exceptional space, but to understand people's differentially experienced feelings as actively shaping the camp's geography. It illustrates this argument by engaging with feelings of suspicion that pervaded my long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Ultimately, the paper urges scholars to explore camps beyond their known capacities for controlling mobility and motion as spaces that are also imbued with feelings and sensibilities.

中文翻译:

感受难民营:情感研究、身体和怀疑

本文通过集中在难民营研究中情绪和影响的方法论导入,推进了难民营地理和强迫迁移研究的辩论。营地通常是同情、恐惧、关怀、怀疑的空间表达,但也孕育了营地社区之间的希望、团结和归属感。研究人员永远不会与这些复杂的情绪和影响隔离开来。虽然定性、民族志、体验或其他感官方法继续广泛用于这一研究领域,但研究人员、居民和营地空间之间的具体接触所产生的情感纠葛尚未得到很好的理解。该论文认为,从方法论上讲,不要简单地将这种情感强度纳入对营地的现有解读中,作为一个特殊的空间,而是将人们的不同体验感受理解为积极塑造营地的地理环境。它通过我在肯尼亚卡库马难民营进行的长期民族志田野调查中的怀疑感来说明这一论点。最终,该论文敦促学者们探索超越他们已知的控制流动性和运动能力的营地,作为同样充满感情和情感的空间。
更新日期:2021-05-28
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