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Negotiating the Moral Politics of Transnational Motherhood: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Central America
| dc.contributor.author | Goldade, Kate R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-08-20T23:48:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-08-20T23:48:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Arizona Anthropologist 17:56-75. © 2006 Arizona Anthropologist | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1062-1601 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110054 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this narrative, the author reflects on the personal and ethical dilemmas she faces currently in the beginning stages of conducting dissertation research fieldwork, an aspect often glossed over by retrospective accounts. She is conducting ethnography of Nicaraguan labor migrant women working in Costa Rica's coffee agro-industry, with an emphasis on reproductive health and motherhood. In addition to her social position as a Western, advanced graduate student-researcher, Goldade is also a wife and mother, arriving in the field with her baby daughter just under 4 months of age. She grapples with the challenges of negotiating the moral politics of motherhood and ethnography, seeking collaboration among host country nationals and recruiting study participants, as well as the balancing act of working motherhood. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology | en_US |
| dc.subject | transnationalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | ethnographic research | en_US |
| dc.subject | motherhood | en_US |
| dc.title | Negotiating the Moral Politics of Transnational Motherhood: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Central America | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Arizona Anthropologist | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-05-28T08:48:31Z | |
| html.description.abstract | In this narrative, the author reflects on the personal and ethical dilemmas she faces currently in the beginning stages of conducting dissertation research fieldwork, an aspect often glossed over by retrospective accounts. She is conducting ethnography of Nicaraguan labor migrant women working in Costa Rica's coffee agro-industry, with an emphasis on reproductive health and motherhood. In addition to her social position as a Western, advanced graduate student-researcher, Goldade is also a wife and mother, arriving in the field with her baby daughter just under 4 months of age. She grapples with the challenges of negotiating the moral politics of motherhood and ethnography, seeking collaboration among host country nationals and recruiting study participants, as well as the balancing act of working motherhood. |
