Doing fieldwork in areas of international intervention : a guide to research in violent and closed contexts / edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Morten Boas.
Using insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict across the world, this book provides essential practical guidance, discussion of mistakes, key reflections and raises important questions for researchers and students embar...
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| Language: | English |
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Bristol University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Spaces of Peace, Security and Development.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Series
- Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: A Fuide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts
- Dilemmas of fieldwork- based intervention research in violent and closed contexts
- Control, confusion and failure in the research process
- Dilemmas of security and risk
- Dilemmas around distance and closeness.
- Sensitivities of research with vulnerable or marginalized participants
- Notes
- References
- Part I Control and Confusion
- 2 Shifting Identities, Policy Networks, and the Practical and Ethical Challenges of Gaining Access to the Field in Intervention
- Gaining access to policy elites working on intervention
- The consequences of access to intervention elites for knowledge production
- Conclusions
- References
- 3 Interpretivist Methods and Military Intervention Research: Using Interview Research to De-centre the 'Intervener'
- Seeing like AFRICOM: interpretivist interview research on military intervention
- Limitations of, and supplements to, interview research in intervention sites
- Conclusion
- References
- 4 The Interview as a Cultural Performance and the Value of Surrendering Control
- Collecting oral information in unfamiliar contexts
- Spontaneity and informality
- Informal conversations over cups of tea
- Conclusions
- Note
- References
- 5 Unequal Research Relationships in Highly Insecure Places: Of Fear, Funds and Friendship
- 'Will we ever be friends?'
- 'Respect me!'
- .Hey ho, let's go!'
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Part II Security and Risk
- 6 The Politics of Safe Research in Violent and Illiberal Contexts
- Regulating research
- Side effects of regulation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach
- Procedural versus practical ethics
- 1. Safety: 'do no harm' or 'see no evil'?
- 2. Positionality: access to the field versus partiality of research
- 3. Permission: official approval versus official surveillance
- 4. Consent: overt versus covert approaches to research.
- 5. Collaboration: co-production of knowledge versus sensible distancing
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- 8 Challenges of Research in an Active Conflict Environment
- Safety and research ethics
- Leveraging relationships in the research process: understanding the parameters
- Negotiating access
- Preserving research quality: flexibility, methodological rigour and transparency in research design
- Operating in environments of weak state capacity and ongoing conflict
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References.