Speaker: Michel Anteby (Boston University)
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Time: Wednesday, 12 March at 11 am EST / 4 pm Paris. This webinar is scheduled for 90 minutes, including Q&A.
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Registration: Please register using the link here to receive a personalized Zoom access and a reminder prior to the event.
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A researcher enters your world and starts asking questions you would prefer not to answer. What do you do? Mostly, when an interloper appears, communities find ways to resist; they obstruct investigations and hide evidence, silence dissent, and even forget about their own past. Such resistance is the bane of field researchers, for it often seems to slam the door in our face. How can we learn about a community when it resists so very strongly? The answer is that, sometimes, the resistance is itself the key. By closing ranks and creating obstacles, community members can disclose more than they mean.
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Suggested reading:
- Anteby, M. (2024) The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
About the speaker
Michel Anteby is a Professor of Management & Organizations at Boston University's Questrom School of Business and Sociology at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences. He also co-leads Boston University's Precarity Lab. His research looks at how individuals relate to their work, their occupations, and the organizations they belong to. He examines the practices people engage in at work that help them sustain their chosen cultures or identities. In doing so, his research contributes to a better understanding of how these cultures and identities come to be and manifest themselves. Studied populations have included airport security officers, clinical anatomists, factory craftsmen, ghostwriters, puppeteers, subway drivers, and university professors.
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Ibrat Djabbarov
Imperial College London
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