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For experienced and inexperienced researchers and practitioners alike, this engaging book opens up new perspectives on conducting fieldwork in the Global South. Following an inter–disciplinary and inter-generational approach, Understanding Global Development brings into dialogue reflections on fieldwork experiences by leading scholars along with accounts from early career researchers. Contributions are organised around six key issues: • Meaningful participation in fieldwork • Working in dangerous environments • Gendered experiences of fieldwork • Researching elites • Conducting fieldwork with marginalised people • Fieldwork in development practice. The experience–led discussion of each of the topics conveys a sense of what it actually feels like to be out in the field and provides readers with useful insights and practical advice. A relational framework highlights issues relating to power, identity and ethics in development fieldwork, and encourages reflection on how researcher engagement with the field shapes our understanding of global development.
The Nature of Power in Elite Interviews: Researching Environmental Politics in the Southern Cone of South America
The Nature of Power in Elite Interviews: Researching Environmental Politics in the Southern Cone of South America
Introduction
In the conversation above, Professor Grugel discusses some of the challenges of interviewing ‘elites’, such as gaining access and establishing rapport, but also the possibility of being manipulated. Many of her reflections are implicitly related to power, which, as Grugel states, is ‘a very problematic concept’ in research involving elite actors. I would like to expand on this more explicitly by reflecting on the notion of power at two levels: with regard to the different types of power that elite interviewees hold in different contexts; and in the relationship between the researcher and elite interviewees.
For my recent research on regional environmental politics in Argentina, Brazil, ...
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