This chapter draws on the authors’ experiences of conducting fieldwork with a peace community in the Philippines and with former guerrilla fighters in Colombia, to unpack some of the major challenges of doing fieldwork with conflict-affected communities and (former) armed actors in areas of violent conflict and limited state authority. Guided by the notions of control, confusion, and failure, it discusses requirements of interviews and ethnographic observation in such contexts, raises ethical questions, and explores emotional issues relating to the role of empathy, seduction, and friendship. Examples from the authors’ own fieldwork experiences are used to illustrate core points. The chapter equips its readers with central questions fieldwor...
Conducting research in violent environments poses particular challenges for researchers and particip...
Using examples from fieldwork among armed groups in Congo and pre-1989 Romania, this article argues ...
This Open Access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven c...
This chapter draws on the authors’ experiences of conducting fieldwork with a peace community in the...
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This article foregrounds some of the ethical dilemmas and physical and emotional...
Within social psychology, fieldwork in conflict settings is still not commonplace, despite recent ca...
When studying violence and its consequences, it is necessary to conduct fieldwork in affected countr...
Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of int...
<p>Fieldwork, an anthropologist's vocation, is full of tensions and dilemmas. However, the experienc...
This paper explores some ethical dilemmas faced while doing fieldwork. Ethical norms are not enough ...
This article examines the ethics of using ethnographic methods in contemporary conflict zones. Ethno...
In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crime...
Researching two different work settings, police work and hospice care, the authors experienced a str...
The edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical...
The chapter reflects on the unintended consequences of fieldwork in polarised soc...
Conducting research in violent environments poses particular challenges for researchers and particip...
Using examples from fieldwork among armed groups in Congo and pre-1989 Romania, this article argues ...
This Open Access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven c...
This chapter draws on the authors’ experiences of conducting fieldwork with a peace community in the...
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This article foregrounds some of the ethical dilemmas and physical and emotional...
Within social psychology, fieldwork in conflict settings is still not commonplace, despite recent ca...
When studying violence and its consequences, it is necessary to conduct fieldwork in affected countr...
Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of int...
<p>Fieldwork, an anthropologist's vocation, is full of tensions and dilemmas. However, the experienc...
This paper explores some ethical dilemmas faced while doing fieldwork. Ethical norms are not enough ...
This article examines the ethics of using ethnographic methods in contemporary conflict zones. Ethno...
In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crime...
Researching two different work settings, police work and hospice care, the authors experienced a str...
The edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical...
The chapter reflects on the unintended consequences of fieldwork in polarised soc...
Conducting research in violent environments poses particular challenges for researchers and particip...
Using examples from fieldwork among armed groups in Congo and pre-1989 Romania, this article argues ...
This Open Access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven c...