Abstract
How does your own body affect your research? How do we deal with unpleasant moments of being called out, misread, ignored or approached by other courtroom attendees during fieldwork? And how do these moments differ, if we investigate powerful institutions (the court, the police, the judge) vs. marginalised objects (the defendant on dock or their families and friends, co-present in the audience)? By drawing down on field research on anti-terrorism-financing trials in Germany and the Netherlands and by bringing into light our own positionality and objectives at stake, we offer some learning from our own fieldwork experiences and how to circumvent risk and turbulences at stake, by entering court spaces, especially those of special public interest, wherein Islamophobic stereotypes, gender-rendered assumptions and police-based information on war scenes and multiple forms of individual contributions herein come into play, which have enables certain modes of proliferation in combats scenes in Syria and Iraq, but also influence discourses on migration and anti-Muslim-resentments back home in Europe.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Courtroom Ethnography |
Subtitle of host publication | Exploring Contemporary Approaches, Fieldwork and Challenges |
Editors | Lisa Flower, Sarah Klosterkamp |
Publisher | Palgrave McMillan |
Chapter | 4 |
Pages | 47-60 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031379857 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031379840 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |