Teaching Fieldwork in a Revolutionary Context

Notes on a Fieldwork Survey with Students from the University of Khartoum (Sudan)

Authors

  • Barbara Casciarri Université Paris 8, Laboratoire Architecture Ville Urbanisme Environnement (LAVUE UMR 7218), Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économique et Juridique (CEDEJ USR 3123)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.039-40.04

Keywords:

University of Khartoum, Fieldwork

Abstract

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the University of Khartoum (Sudan) has a long tradition in under-graduated students’ fieldwork training. The first fieldwork survey after the 2018-2019 Sudanese revolution focused on the action led by the “Resistance Committees”, created by this change process in several neighbourhoods of Greater Khartoum. This article is based on my experience, when I joined for one day the teachers and students involved in the survey on February 2020. It describes and analyses the objects, situations and biases which arouse during such didactical sequences. It opens a reflection on the issues at stake in doing fieldwork in a revolutionary context as well as on the role of commitment, emotion and shared experience in a well-known fieldwork which has just been deeply transformed and “liberated”.

Author Biography

Barbara Casciarri, Université Paris 8, Laboratoire Architecture Ville Urbanisme Environnement (LAVUE UMR 7218), Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économique et Juridique (CEDEJ USR 3123)

Barbara Casciarri est Docteur en Anthropologie Sociale et Ethnologie (EHESS, Paris), Professeur en Anthropologie au Département de Sociologie et d’Anthropologie de l’Université Paris 8. Elle a mené ses recherches en anthropologie politique et de l’environnement, en contexte rural et urbain, au Soudan et au Maroc, et plus récemment en France et en Italie. Elle participe aux projets de formation à l’enquête en Licence et Master à l’Université Paris 8 et à des écoles doctorales au Soudan.

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Published

2022-04-01

How to Cite

Casciarri, B. (2022) “Teaching Fieldwork in a Revolutionary Context: Notes on a Fieldwork Survey with Students from the University of Khartoum (Sudan)”, Emulations - Revue de sciences sociales, (39-40), pp. 69–90. doi: 10.14428/emulations.039-40.04.

Issue

No. 39-40 (2021): Teaching fieldwork. Transmit, experiment, experience

Section

Articles