Methodology Workshop: How to study conflicts over gender and sexuality?

The aim of this workshop was to provide scholars-early career scholars in particular-a forum to discuss methodological challenges related to the study of conflicts over gender and sexuality. Due to the sensitive nature of the topics discussed, this was a closed workshop.

Conveners: Prof. Agnieszka Kościańska (University of Warsaw) and Dr Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford). 

Discussants: Prof. Jill Owczarzak (Johns Hopkins University), Prof. Flávia Biroli (University of Brasília) and other Gender Wars network members

Part 1: After fieldwork-dealing with ethical dilemmas 

Agnieszka Kosiorowska (University of Warsaw), When "Polish" means "Catholic" : ethical and methodological dilemmas of an impious ethnographer

Julia Laureau (Université Catholique de Louvain), From ally to dangerous Other: lessons from an "impossible" ethnography.

Talia Kollek (University of Oxford), Paranoia as Practice: Information security for at-risk ethnography

Part 2: Methodological challenges of ongoing projects 

Olajumoke Olarewaju (Johns Hopkins University), Understanding Substance Use Patterns and Experience of Pregnancy in the United States: A Life Course Perspective

Laira Rocha Tenca (University of Brasilia), Disputes Over Same-Sex Marriage in Brazil and Peru: Strategies, Discourses, and Actors of Neoconservatism