| Title | Blending in or Being Co-Opted: Reflecting on an Internship-Cum-Field Work at a New Town Government in China |
| Author | |
| Corresponding Author | Wang, Lili |
| Publication Years | 2023-09-01
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| DOI | |
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| ISSN | 0033-0124
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| EISSN | 1467-9272
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| Abstract | Existing literature details many complexities of researcher-participant relationships in field work. It nonetheless evades a possibility that the researcher could be co-opted and lose his or her researcher self in specific field situations. Reflecting on an internship experience with a Chinese new town government, I present and problematize such a possibility. Two questions are explored: (1) In what contexts and in what ways was the researcher co-opted? (2) What have been the implications of the co-option to the researcher ' s research practice By answering these questions, this article makes three contributions. First, it presents a new complexity to researcher-participant relationships in the field. Second, in explaining the emergence of such a complexity, it develops a conceptual framework of resubjectivation that considers the intersection of the researcher ' s biography and the agency of the field site. Third, the article unravels how being co-opted in the field had profound impacts on research, posing complex methodological and ethical challenges. |
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| URL | [Source Record] |
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| Language | English
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| SUSTech Authorship | First
; Corresponding
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| WOS Research Area | Geography
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| WOS Subject | Geography
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| WOS Accession No | WOS:001074742800001
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| Publisher | |
| ESI Research Field | SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL
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| Data Source | Web of Science
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| Document Type | Journal Article |
| Identifier | http://kc.sustech.edu.cn/handle/2SGJ60CL/582970 |
| Department | Southern University of Science and Technology |
| Affiliation | Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Ctr Social Sci, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China |
| First Author Affilication | Southern University of Science and Technology |
| Corresponding Author Affilication | Southern University of Science and Technology |
| First Author's First Affilication | Southern University of Science and Technology |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 |
Wang, Lili. Blending in or Being Co-Opted: Reflecting on an Internship-Cum-Field Work at a New Town Government in China[J]. PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER,2023.
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| APA |
Wang, Lili.(2023).Blending in or Being Co-Opted: Reflecting on an Internship-Cum-Field Work at a New Town Government in China.PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER.
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| MLA |
Wang, Lili."Blending in or Being Co-Opted: Reflecting on an Internship-Cum-Field Work at a New Town Government in China".PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER (2023).
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