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The Gaze and the Gesture: Hypervisible Insiderness and the Politics of Recognition in Somali Ethnography

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Abstract

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 377-400, June 2026.
Ethnographic scholarship increasingly recognizes the complexity of researcher positionality, yet often overlooks how visibility reshapes field relations. This article reconceptualizes positionality as a situational practice shaped by embodiment, ...