Building on my ongoing ethnographic research with people living with HIV in different European countries, the paper focuses on RD, a Catalan man I have interviewed three times since 2014. In RD's life narrative, ‘crisis’ is a recurring theme including both the most blatant forms, like the severe housing crisis in Spain that followed the global financial crisis, and the most ordinary ones like domestic violence. Analysing the impact of crises in RD's perception and experience of the present, interwoven with the past(s) and the future(s), the paper dis-cusses two main benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research. First, it allows to capture how crisis is not just a moment or a phase in RD's life, but acts as context generating a recurring experience of an ‘uncanny present’ shaped by logics of re-turn and repetition of the past, and anticipation of the future. Second, it supports RD's self- awareness around his ability to navigate the unknown when experiencing the ‘uncanny present’; this highlights the ethical care dimension entailed by such methodology.

‘I guess I really survived many crises’: On the benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research / Di Feliciantonio, Cesare. - In: AREA. - ISSN 1475-4762. - (2023). [10.1111/area.12886]

‘I guess I really survived many crises’: On the benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research

Di Feliciantonio, Cesare
2023

Abstract

Building on my ongoing ethnographic research with people living with HIV in different European countries, the paper focuses on RD, a Catalan man I have interviewed three times since 2014. In RD's life narrative, ‘crisis’ is a recurring theme including both the most blatant forms, like the severe housing crisis in Spain that followed the global financial crisis, and the most ordinary ones like domestic violence. Analysing the impact of crises in RD's perception and experience of the present, interwoven with the past(s) and the future(s), the paper dis-cusses two main benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research. First, it allows to capture how crisis is not just a moment or a phase in RD's life, but acts as context generating a recurring experience of an ‘uncanny present’ shaped by logics of re-turn and repetition of the past, and anticipation of the future. Second, it supports RD's self- awareness around his ability to navigate the unknown when experiencing the ‘uncanny present’; this highlights the ethical care dimension entailed by such methodology.
2023
care ethics; Catalonia; lifecourse; longitudinal research; temporalities; uncanny
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‘I guess I really survived many crises’: On the benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research / Di Feliciantonio, Cesare. - In: AREA. - ISSN 1475-4762. - (2023). [10.1111/area.12886]
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