The aim of this workshop was to provide scholars—early career scholars in particular—a forum to discuss methodological challenges related to the study of conflicts over gender and sexuality. Due to the sensitive nature of the topics discussed, this was a closed workshop.
Conveners: Prof. Agnieszka Kościańska (University of Warsaw) and Dr Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford).
Discussants: Prof. Jill Owczarzak (Johns Hopkins University), Prof. Flávia Biroli (University of Brasília) and other Gender Wars network members
Part 1: After fieldwork—dealing with ethical dilemmas
Agnieszka Kosiorowska (University of Warsaw), When “Polish” means “Catholic” : ethical and methodological dilemmas of an impious ethnographer
Julia Laureau (Université Catholique de Louvain), From ally to dangerous Other: lessons from an “impossible” ethnography.
Talia Kollek (University of Oxford), Paranoia as Practice: Information security for at-risk ethnography
Part 2: Methodological challenges of ongoing projects
Olajumoke Olarewaju (Johns Hopkins University), Understanding Substance Use Patterns and Experience of Pregnancy in the United States: A Life Course Perspective
Laira Rocha Tenca (University of Brasilia), Disputes Over Same-Sex Marriage in Brazil and Peru: Strategies, Discourses, and Actors of Neoconservatism
