“Daughter” as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field

• Main Authors: DE SILVA, Menusha, GANDHI, Kanchan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Accompaniment; gender; India; knowledge production; positionality; Sri Lanka; Asian Studies; Human Geography; Models and Methods
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3030; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4287/viewcontent/101111_area12525.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Research on gendered politics of the field has delved into the practices of accompaniment and its implications on research and knowledge production, particularly through the case of researchers’ children and partners. In comparison, the tendency to seek assistance from parents is neglected within th...