| ID | 092550 |
| Title Proper | Unwilling participant observation among Russian Siloviki and the good-enough field researcher |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Johnson, Janet Elise |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In 1999, on a trip to Russia to study gender violence, I was sitting in on a special training at a Moscow police academy. In between jokes about the impossibility of prostitutes getting raped, the cops-in-training could not stop focusing on me, the one American and one of three women in a rowdy room. For example, one man loudly asked me whether all Americans had cars and followed up with a comment that, of course we did, because this is where "you" (meaning me) would have sex. The training on rape and sexual harassment that I had come to observe had come to a halt because the new police were so intent on making sexual jokes. These comments felt even more threatening than they might otherwise because, a few days before, I had been picked up by the Russian police, shoved into a police car with several drunken officers, and driven around Moscow until I offered a bribe. |
| `In' analytical Note | Political Science and Politics Vol. 42, No. 2; Apr 2009: p321-324 |
| Journal Source | Political Science and Politics Vol. 42, No. 2; Apr 2009: p321-324 |
| Key Words | Russian Silviki ; Field Research ; Russia ; Research |