Ethnographers and Subjectivity; Doctors and Comradely Critique

Maintaining independent theoretical analyses can present difficulties when doing research with experts, since such experts develop their own arguments, often framed in sociological language. I interrogate techniques for overcoming these difficulties. In the relational, embedded work of participant-observation, how can the ethnographer maintain her own authorial voice while remaining faithful to her interlocutors? Reflexive consideration of my positionality helped to make sense of my interlocutors’ temporalities and moral arguments.