Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | This essay explores the geographies of knowledge and knowledge production, with a particular focus on research on Global China and Chinese migrants in Africa. It examines how a fieldworker’s living arrangements—the places and spaces they inhabit during fieldwork—shape the dynamics of research, including field access, participant recruitment, data collection, and multifaceted field relations. Drawing on the author’s ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2022 and 2024 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the essay shows how a fieldworker’s living arrangements matter by comparing three types of accommodation: a Chinese-run hotel-restaurant, an informal Chinese hotel, and a homestay in an informant’s household. |
