The Annual International Conference on Ecclesiology and Ethnography

Clementine Nishimwe, a member of the RelEx research team, recently presented a paper at the annual International Conference on Ecclesiology and Ethnography, held in Durham, UK, from September 10-12. This interdisciplinary conference invites scholarship engaging with a range of methodological approaches, including ethnography, anthropology, systematic theology, ecclesiology, practical theology, and social science perspectives. Her paper, entitled “Mutual Learning between Researcher and Studied Communities as a Method in Liberationist Fieldwork in South Africa,” examined the epistemological implications of participant observation within a liberationist ethnographic framework. The paper discussed mutual learning as a critical methodological approach to liberationist ethnographic research. Her paper also explores the concept of “interlocutor” and how the concept could inform how researchers process learning in research fieldwork.