Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward Wadds Phillip
Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward Wadds Phillip This edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical…
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Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward Wadds Phillip
This edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical examples where fieldworkers have attempted to negotiate the complexities and risks of field research. These risks manifest in diverse and novel ways. Field research can be a risky and dangerous journey where the line between safety and danger can be crossed in quick time, often with little warning.
They can impact the researchers, participants, collaborators and interviewees. They can be physical and psychological, ephemeral and enduring. Indeed, they can condition the very foundation of our processes of knowledge production.
Fieldwork is no small stakes game. Covering research from Afghanistan, Chad, DR Congo, Greece, the Horn of Africa, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Palestine, India, Indonesia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Vietnam and Australia, each chapter highlights diverse, eclectic, raw and