Fieldwork as an attitude: Toward outside of academic journals

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in fieldwork in various fields. However, is the call to go into the field limited within the context of academic research? We always ponder the purpose and methods of our study. Is not the call facilitating us to transcend even the boundaries of academic research to approach a living reality? It would be somewhat naïve to think that we must go outside the artificial environment of the laboratory in response to the call to go into the field. Before going into the field, I suggest that we need to rethink our thought processes and practices. In this paper, I would like to position fieldwork as our attitude and attempt to characterize our activities therein.