‘Not to Worry, I’m Well-Behaved’: Sexual Harassment as a Strategy of the Research Participants
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sexual harassment, research field, academic culture, research participants’ strategiesAbstract
The aim of the article is to make visible the violence experienced by researchers in the field. Firstly, violence is sometimes a part of the fieldwork and as such can be analyzed. Secondly, keeping quiet about it strengthens the harmful aspects of the academic culture, in which the problems related to belonging to minority groups (including the problems of women in academia) remain invisible. As a consequence, research institutions do not develop support mechanisms for people experiencing violence, and researchers are not prepared for this kind of difficulty. I analyze three incidents of sexual harassment that I myself have experienced in the field. I interpret them as one of the strategies adopted by research participants during an interview to gain power or control over the situation.
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