Summary
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Exploring the challenges and risks of social science fieldwork, this book shares best practice for conducting research in hostile environments and pragmatic advice to help you make good decisions. Drawing on the authors’ experiences in regions of conflict and grounded in real-world examples, the book: • Provides practical guidance on important considerations like choosing a research question in sensitive contexts • Gives advice on data and digital security to help you minimize fieldwork risk in a contemporary research environment • Offers tools and templates you can use to develop a tailored security framework Building your understanding of the challenges of on-the-ground research, this book empowers you to meet the challenges of your research landscape head on.
In the Field
In the Field
Introduction
This chapter explores safety issues that researchers face while navigating fieldwork. As discussed in the Introduction, the relationship between the researcher and the ‘field’ may vary: for some researchers, it entails travel to a foreign and relatively unknown country; for others, it is a return to a country that, while not their own, is well known to them and where they have close friends; for yet others, the ‘field’ is another city, neighborhood or community in their own country. In all cases, research in difficult environments entails working in a ‘foreign’ setting. The Kenyan researcher from upmarket Gigiri working in the Kibera slum (Wilson 2018), the American professor studying gangs in inner-city Chicago (Padilla 1992), and the Swedish researcher undertaking ...
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