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‘My friends look just like you’ : Research encounters and imaginaries in Vancouver’s urban drug scene Fast, Danya
Abstract
Drawing on eight years of research with young people who inhabit the margins of Vancouver, in this article I bring into view some of the ‘frictions’ that can arise when conducting anthropological research at home, across vast differences in power and privilege. I argue that our research subjects can also be deeply concerned with how to position themselves in relation to researchers and research studies, and with navigating the various forms of social and geographical distance and proximity that are embedded in anthropological encounters across time. Paying attention to how our research subjects position themselves in research encounters may force us to problematize tidy boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’.
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‘My friends look just like you’ : Research encounters and imaginaries in Vancouver’s urban drug scene
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‘My friends look just like you’
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2016-09-13
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Drawing on eight years of research with young people who inhabit the margins of Vancouver, in this article I bring into view some of the ‘frictions’ that can arise when conducting anthropological research at home, across vast differences in power and privilege. I argue that our research subjects can also be deeply concerned with how to position themselves in relation to researchers and research studies, and with navigating the various
forms of social and geographical distance and proximity that are embedded in anthropological encounters across time. Paying attention to how our research subjects position themselves in research encounters may force us to problematize tidy boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’.
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eng
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2018-12-13
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0375732
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Fast, D. (2016). ‘My friends look just like you’: Research encounters and imaginaries in Vancouver’s urban drug scene. Medicine Anthropology Theory 3(2), 223-243.
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10.17157/mat.3.2.343
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Reviewed
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Postdoctoral
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International