TY - JOUR AU - Ayeh, Anna Madeleine PY - 2023/02/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Doing Fieldwork while Parenting: Between Challenging and Intensifying Structural Power Imbalances in Anthropological Knowledge Production JF - Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology JA - journal-sa VL - 28 IS - SE - Special Issue DO - 10.36950/sjsca.2022.28.7998 UR - https://journal-sa.ch/article/view/7998 SP - 24-40 AB - <p>Conducting fieldwork as a White woman researcher from the Global North on women’s practices of religious knowing in Benin, my work is based on multiple entwined positionalities that require critical reflection. The political categories of race, gender, age, religion, and family status at times linked, at times distanced me from my interlocutors in Benin as well as my colleagues at University of Bayreuth. This article explores the multiple ways parenting has informed my work in Benin and its institutional integration in a German Anthropology department. Using difference as a lens, I enquire how parenting, intersecting with gender, sexuality, and family normativity, has been used to undo difference during fieldwork, while exacerbating structural inequalities with reference to academic funding structures and research organization.</p> ER -