• Gender influences how researchers engage with the field. Departing from this proposition, this presentation offers reflections on gender from masculine viewpoints in the context of a qualitative research project investigating lifestyle enterprising in southern Sweden. Focusing on personal experiences associated with family relocation to, and involvement in, the research process, the presentation focuses on the emergence of masculinities of husband-hood and fatherhood at the intersection of family and field. Exploring the processes of family relocation, site selection and apprehension, the presentation shows how masculinities of fatherhood and husband-hood influence research processes in the field as well as beyond it. Assorted contingent masculinities stemming from family positions of fatherhood and husband-hood affects the whole research enterprise, not only in the space of ‘the field’ but also in the spaces that lie ‘before’, ‘after’ and ‘beyond’ it. This suggests that the reflective researcher is doubly troubled by finding gender in ‘the field’ as well as determining where the entanglements of gender and field start and stop. Furthermore, the masculinities at the intersection of family and field are not a one-way street but are bidirectional, spilling beyond the professional domain of the researcher’s relation to the field into the personal domain of their relation to the family. In recognizing the wider implications of the masculine entanglements of family and field, gender emerges as an existential epistemological condition of social life, the broader implication is that researchers have little option but to tackle the complex challenges of gender everywhere, both in and beyond ‘the field’.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Social and Economic Geography -- Economic Geography (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences (hsv//eng)

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