Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods
Markus Roos Breines, Joanna Menet & Joris Schapendonk
| Résumé |
The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over
the past two decades has generated new research approaches to
deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These
methods have focused on capturing research participants’
mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’
mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore
the relationship between researchers and research participants’
mobilities through the idea of ‘following’. Drawing on insights
from the Moving Marketplaces research project on eight markets in
the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, we highlight the
lack of beginnings and endings of following. This leads us to a
reflection on what to actually follow as well as an analysis of the
doings of following. This paper examines some of the unexplored
terrains in the conceptual and methodological debate around
following and argues that it is essential to reflexively engage
with the implications and practicalities of this approach. We argue
that it is more productive to regard following not only as the
physical process of following people, objects, knowledge, etc., but
also as a theoretical and methodological openness that embraces and
articulates the dynamic and non-linear character of ethnographic
research practices. |
| Mots-clés |
Mobile methods; following; mobilities; marketplaces; reflexive ethnography |
| Citation | Breines, M. R., Menet, J., & Schapendonk, J. (2021). Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods. Mobilities, 16(6), 921-934. |
| Type | Article de périodique (Anglais) |
| Date de publication | 2-8-2021 |
| Nom du périodique | Mobilities |
| Volume | 16 |
| Numéro | 6 |
| Pages | 921-934 |
| URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.202... |
| Liée au projet | Moving MarketPlaces (MMP): Following the Everyday Product... |