Labour Force
摘要
As well as the other entries, this one is the direct result of our fieldwork. The difference consists in the way it is written. This is a kind of creative essay in anthropological writing, in the line of what researchers call “imaginative practices and creative methodologies” (Culhane and Elliott 2016). As anthropologists, our methodology is deeply based on a long-term ethnography, spending time, and sharing daily-lives of people we meet. As Dara Culhane put it, “ethnographic knowledge emerges not through detached observation but through conversations and exchanges of many kinds among people interacting in diverse zones of entanglement. This is what we mean when we refer to ethnography as a methodology of inquiry into “collaborative” or “co-creative” knowledge making” (Ibid.). We decided to follow what Denielle Elliott invites us to do: we “undiscipline our imagination” (Ibid.).