An ethnographic sojourner

Atkinson, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7367-8160 2026. An ethnographic sojourner. Whitaker, Emilie Morwenna and Atkinson, Paul, eds. Ethnography’s ghosts: spectres, archives, ancestors, Routledge, pp. 147-157. (10.4324/9781003541424-14)

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Abstract

Reflections on fieldwork frequently, and quite properly, stress the importance of the researcher's presence – personal, physical, and emotional – in the ‘field’. Likewise, much methodological reflection emphasises the nature and content of ethnographers’ social relations, often intimate, with their research hosts. This chapter reflects a different kind of experience of fieldwork: a sense of relative displacement and loss of social relations. Rather than being the kind of stranger who becomes a familiar member of a social world, Atkinson describes himself as a sojourner, a temporary – even migrant – resident in the city with an accompanying sense of alienation. It reflects a sense of biographical disruption and loss of self.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032891491
Last Modified:	13 Jul 2026 14:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/188175

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