%0 Journal Article
%T Waiting, power and time in ethnographic and community
%A Celmara Pocock
%A Jane Palmer
%A Lorelle Burton
%J Qualitative Research
%@ 1741-3109
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1468794117728413
%X Waiting is one of the most common phenomena in ethnographic and other community-based research. Nevertheless, it remains under-explored in academic writing about the theoretical and methodological aspects of fieldwork. While waiting time often allows new data or information to emerge, we argue that such times have a significance independent of knowledge outcomes. We review various conceptions of waiting: as a time for self-awareness; the use of enforced waiting to exert power over the disadvantaged; and its obverse, the choice by the more powerful to ¡®wait upon¡¯ another¡¯s needs and priorities. We use stories from our own fieldwork experience to suggest that in the particular context of ethnographic or community-based research, the choice to ¡®wait upon¡¯ others is a form of researcher reflexivity that can partially redress historical or current power imbalances
%K ethnographic research
%K ethnography and disadvantage
%K interstitial time
%K power relations in fieldwork
%K reflexivity
%K storytelling
%K waiting
%K waiting and power
%K waiting upon
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468794117728413