- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
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1 Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts -
Part I Control and Confusion -
2 Shifting Identities, Policy Networks, and the Practical and Ethical Challenges of Gaining Access to the Field in Interventions -
3 Interpretivist Methods and Military Intervention Research: Using Interview Research to De-centre the ‘Intervener’ -
4 The Interview as a Cultural Performance and the Value of Surrendering Control -
5 Unequal Research Relationships in Highly Insecure Places: Of Fear, Funds and Friendship -
Part II Security and Risk -
6 The Politics of Safe Research in Violent and Illiberal Contexts -
7 The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach -
8 Challenges of Research in an Active Conflict Environment -
9 On Assessing Risk Assessments and Situating Security Advice: The Unsettling Quest for ‘Security Expertise’ -
10 Being Watched and Being Handled -
Part III Distance and Closeness -
11 Positioning in an Insecure Field: Reflections on Negotiating Identity -
12 A Different Form of Intervention? Revisiting the Role of Researchers in Post-war Contexts -
13 The Road to Darfur: Ethical and Practical Challenges of Embedded Research in Areas of Open Conflict -
14 Interpretation by Proxy? Interpretive Fieldwork with Local Associates in Areas of Restricted Research Access -
Part IV Sex and Sensitivity -
15 Sex Workers and Sugar Babies: Empathetic Engagement with Vulnerable Sources -
16 Lifting the Burden? The Ethical Implications of Studying Exemplary, Not Pathological, Wartime Sexual Conduct -
17 Unexpected Grey Areas, Innuendo and Webs of Complicity: Experiences of Researching Sexual Exploitation in UN Peacekeeping Missions -
18 Sexual Exploitation, Rape and Abuse as a Narrative and a Strategy -
19 Ten Things to Consider Before, During and After Fieldwork in a Violent or Closed Context - Index
The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach
The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach
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- (p.93) 7 The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach
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- Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention
- Author(s):
John Heathershaw
Parviz Mullojonov
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter focuses on the field research of John Heathershaw and Parviz Mullojonov. It illustrates the slippery slope that research in violent and closed contexts can be despite complying with the tight institutional ethics and risk assessment procedures of a UK university. It refers to the case of the detention of a Tajik researcher by Tajik security agencies, which discuss the limits of the procedural approach to research ethics and security currently employed by many universities in the Global North. The chapter looks into the dilemmas of researcher and research participant safety and trade-offs between access and impartiality. It argues that conscious vocational engagement with the field can help make better choices and fully overcome the interlinked dilemmas explored.
Keywords: John Heathershaw, Parviz Mullojonov, research ethics, research security, institutional ethics, risk assessment, researcher safety, research participant safety
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts -
Part I Control and Confusion -
2 Shifting Identities, Policy Networks, and the Practical and Ethical Challenges of Gaining Access to the Field in Interventions -
3 Interpretivist Methods and Military Intervention Research: Using Interview Research to De-centre the ‘Intervener’ -
4 The Interview as a Cultural Performance and the Value of Surrendering Control -
5 Unequal Research Relationships in Highly Insecure Places: Of Fear, Funds and Friendship -
Part II Security and Risk -
6 The Politics of Safe Research in Violent and Illiberal Contexts -
7 The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach -
8 Challenges of Research in an Active Conflict Environment -
9 On Assessing Risk Assessments and Situating Security Advice: The Unsettling Quest for ‘Security Expertise’ -
10 Being Watched and Being Handled -
Part III Distance and Closeness -
11 Positioning in an Insecure Field: Reflections on Negotiating Identity -
12 A Different Form of Intervention? Revisiting the Role of Researchers in Post-war Contexts -
13 The Road to Darfur: Ethical and Practical Challenges of Embedded Research in Areas of Open Conflict -
14 Interpretation by Proxy? Interpretive Fieldwork with Local Associates in Areas of Restricted Research Access -
Part IV Sex and Sensitivity -
15 Sex Workers and Sugar Babies: Empathetic Engagement with Vulnerable Sources -
16 Lifting the Burden? The Ethical Implications of Studying Exemplary, Not Pathological, Wartime Sexual Conduct -
17 Unexpected Grey Areas, Innuendo and Webs of Complicity: Experiences of Researching Sexual Exploitation in UN Peacekeeping Missions -
18 Sexual Exploitation, Rape and Abuse as a Narrative and a Strategy -
19 Ten Things to Consider Before, During and After Fieldwork in a Violent or Closed Context - Index