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The companion to peace and conflict fieldwork

Author: Roger Mac Ginty; Roddy Brett; Birte Vogel
Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This unique companion is a much-needed guide for those who are embarking on field research in conflict-affected countries. In a break with academic tradition, the chapters are mainly written in the first person and contain personal accounts of the ethical and practical challenges of fieldwork. In the book, over thirty scholars reflect on the complexity of dealing with human subjects in conflict-affected contexts.  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Roger Mac Ginty; Roddy Brett; Birte Vogel
ISBN: 3030464326 9783030464325
OCLC Number: 1147296846
Description: xvii, 493 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction (Roger Mac Ginty, Roddy Brett, Birte Vogel) --
Chapter 2 How I dealt with my ethics committee, and survived (Jonathan Fisher). Chapter 3 When Humans Become Data (Roxani Krystalli) --
Chapter 4 Researching Over-Researched Societies (Grainne Kelly) --
Chapter 5 Preparing for fieldwork interviews (Berit Bliesemann de Guevara & Birgit Poopuu) --
Chapter 6 Being Indiana Jones in IR: The pressure to do 'real fieldwork (Laura Routley and Katharine Wright) --
Chapter 7 Interview locations (Paul Jackson) --
Chapter 8 From risk aversion to risk management (Sophie Roborgh) --
Chapter 9 Researching 'militant groups (James W. McAuley) --
Chapter 10 The Ethics of Ethnographic Peace and Conflict Research (Gearoid Millar) --
Chapter 11 Solitary Decision-Making and Fieldwork Safety (Max Gallien) --
Chapter 12 Making Contact: Interviewing Rebels in Sierra Leone (Kieran Mitton) --
Chapter 13 Participatory Action Research: Challenges and rewards in fifteen field lessons (Georgina McAllister) --
Chapter 14 Conflict ethnography goes online: Chatnography of the Ukrainian volunteer battalions (Ilmari Käihkö) --
Chapter 15 Negotiating relationships with vulnerable communities (Nick Morgan) --
Chapter 16 Gatekeepers (Gyda M. Sindre) --
Chapter 17 Working with Translators: Implications of the Translators Positionality for the Research Process and Knowledge Production (Kristina Tschunkert) --
Chapter 18 Facing Violence in the Field (Roddy Brett) --
Chapter 19 Interviewing Perpetrators of Genocide (Manolo E. Vela Castañeda) --
Chapter 20 Interviewing Elites (Christine Wade) --
Chapter 21 (Secrecy and silence in fieldwork: reflections on feminist research on violence in Latin America (Mo Hume) --
Chapter 22 Read the Room: Side-by-Side methodology in a Belfast ice hockey arena (Eric Lepp) --
Chapter 23 Traversing Fieldwork with Imperfect Language Skills (Simon Philpott) --
Chapter 24 Confessions of a Local Researcher (Nemanja Džuverović) --
Chapter 25 Gend ered challenges to fieldwork in conflict-affected areas (Kathleen M. Jennings) --
Chapter 26 Race, positionality and the researcher (Sarah Njeri) --
Chapter 27 Fixers and friends --
local and international researchers (Morten Bøås) --
Chapter 28 "Mummy I want to go home": Children and Parenthood in the Field (Jenna Murray de López) --
Chapter 29 Privilege (Stefanie Kappler) --
Chapter 30 From the field back to academia (Malgorzata Polanska) --
Chapter 31 The Politics and Practicalities of Writing (Birte Vogel and Roger Mac Ginty) --
Chapter 32 Writing and the Ethics of Representation (Angela J. Lederach) --
Chapter 33 Giving back: A conversation between researcher and refugee (Jessica Field and Ali Johar).
Responsibility: Roger Mac Ginty, Roddy Brett, Birte Vogel, editors.

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This indispensable book provides insider knowledge and gives confidence to researchers - both those at the very start of their careers or during their studies, and experienced researchers who want to  Read more...

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