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Social Science General

Red Stamps and Gold Stars

Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia

edited by Sarah Turner

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
May 2013
Category
General, General, Cultural
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774824934
    Publish Date
    May 2013
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774824958
    Publish Date
    May 2013
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774824941
    Publish Date
    Jan 2014
    List Price
    $34.95

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In the late 1970s and ’80s, socialist countries in Asia began reopening their borders to overseas scholars. Today, a growing number of social scientists are embarking on fieldwork in China, Vietnam, and Laos. Red Stamps and Gold Stars brings together all the messiness, compromise, and ethical dilemmas that underscore fieldwork in upland socialist Asia and elsewhere in the Global South.

 

The volume’s contributors – accomplished geographers, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians – foreground the importance of questioning one’s subjective gaze and of debating representations of “the other.” Reflecting on the realities of fieldwork in socialist regimes and analyzing their positionality and subjectivity in the field, they debate a range of ethical quandaries and the rewards that can be gained from critical reflection. Together, these unique contributions will advance the study of the practice of international fieldwork.

About the author

Sarah Turner is professor of geography at McGill University. She is the author of Indonesia's Small Entrepreneurs: Trading on the Margins (Routledge, 2003) and Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands (University of Washington Press, 2015); and editor of Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia (University of British Columbia Press, 2013).

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