ABSTRACT
I should begin by saying that I don’t believe in ‘the field’. That is to say, I don’t believe that it exists as a concrete space that we can visit, or enter and exit. While fieldwork might take place in a specific geographical, physical, far-from-home place in the standard sense, it might also be a space closer to home, a practice or a community. It might be a part of our own lives. Paul Kirby argues that, upon closer examination, the field ceases to be a single distant point that we travel to. We may have a field of study where we are engaged as participant observers, uncovering logics of action and the networks of global politics. But we do not return so much as move back into another field – that of our own academic conduct (2014).
