Mental health, coloniality and fieldwork in the European university: a reflection in three challenges – commentary to Taylor

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Lioba A. Hirsch
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In this reflection piece, I discuss three challenges to the way we think about fieldwork and mental health in the context of European universities. These challenges emerged out of reading and reflecting on Stephen Taylor’s paper “The long shadows cast by the field: violence, trauma and the ethnographic researcher”. Specifically I reflect on coloniality and whiteness and the ways in which I consider them to be entangled in both the problem and the discussion around universities’ handling of the mental health of their staff and students. In doing so I rely on decolonial and critical whiteness literature to argue that universities’ disregard for the (mental health) risks associated with conducting ethnographic fieldwork as well as the academic culture which fuels this disregard, reveal the ways in which universities and the knowledge they produce privilege whiteness.
欧洲大学的心理健康、殖民主义和实地考察:三大挑战的反思——对泰勒的评论
在这篇反思文章中,我讨论了我们在欧洲大学背景下思考田野调查和心理健康的三个挑战。这些挑战源于阅读和反思斯蒂芬·泰勒的论文《田野投下的漫长阴影:暴力、创伤和民族志研究者》。具体来说,我反思了殖民主义和白人主义,以及我认为他们如何卷入这个问题和围绕大学处理教职员工和学生心理健康的讨论中。在这样做的过程中,我依靠非殖民化和批判性的白人文学来证明,大学无视与进行民族志实地调查相关的(心理健康)风险,以及助长这种无视的学术文化,揭示了大学及其知识产生特权白人的方式。
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