MEETINGS, ORGANISATIONS, AND ACTIVISMS ROUNDTABLE ON FIELDWORK IN ORGANISATIONAL SETTINGS
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This article is the first of two roundtable discussions that sought to demystify fieldwork for those who have not yet undergone it. The conversations brought together post-field PhD students, for whom the experience remained fresh, to reflect on the practical, emotional, and epistemological dimensions of ethnographic research. Each contribution develops a distinct thematic focus. The first examines researchers working with meetings and organisations, highlighting the challenges of gaining access, the negotiation of positionality and identity, and the affective intensities that arise throughout the research process. It further considers how the boundedness of organisational spaces mirrors the shifting boundaries of the ‘fieldworker’ identity, which is inevitably influenced by, and absorbed into, other aspects of the self.
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