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‘Knowledge’– for what and for whom? 25 Mar 2010 | 10:46 pm
The value of knowledge is that humans can use it to increase their capacities and improving their possibilities to live and survive (Liedman 2001, my translation). I am trying to understand what know...
Striving for Grounded Knowledge 27 Feb 2010 | 09:22 am
‘Philosophers agree in making a deep distinction between two ways of knowing a thing. The first implies going all around it, the second entering into it’ (Berguson 1903:1 in Charmaz 2006:25). When I ...
Focus on the Process, Not the Product 28 Jan 2010 | 08:31 am
Yet, despite my relief at leaving the field, and even though I was looking forward to immersing myself in the analysis and writing, there lingered at the back of my mind a strong desire to return to t...
Seen in a Rear-View Mirror 23 Dec 2009 | 08:07 am
Experience itself does not generate knowledge, we learn out of the conclusions we draw from our experience (Argyris in Granberg 2009:224). Ever since I came back from the field in Mozambique, I have ...
Time 13 Nov 2009 | 11:43 pm
“Time enables the strange to become familiar and the familiar strange” (O’Reilly 2005:92). Time gives you the chance to settle in, to get used to the new surroundings, the new people and start to see...
What Does a Photograph Mean to You 24 Oct 2009 | 09:11 am
“To live is to be photographed, to have a record of one’s life …But to live is also to pose… To act is to share in the community of actions recorded as images” (Sontag 2004). Over half a year ago I s...
The Mamãs 16 Oct 2009 | 02:01 am
The Mamãs are five women who live in the agricultural rural village of Dondo in Mozambique, which is the cite of the Foundation where these women work and where I am doing voluntary work. This is also...
To Take Action is to Make a Stand 8 Oct 2009 | 01:34 am
…what about the relationship between research and society when we talk about action research, where the explicit purpose is to enter society and perform change from within (Gustavsen 2008)? One kind ...
A Day in the Field 1 Oct 2009 | 04:28 am
‘I do not care very much about the campaigns. I just want peace and progress’ (One of my research participants said when I asked if she was involved in the ongoing national political election campaign...
Why ‘Within’ 22 Sep 2009 | 12:10 am
‘The question is not ‘what do I see these people doing’. We must ask ourselves ‘what do these people see themselves doing?’ (unknown source). Anthropology is a discipline that encourages field-based,...
