ISBN:
9780415628419
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (303 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Parallel Title:
Print version Fieldwork in the Global South : Ethical Challenges and Dilemmas
DDC:
305.8009181/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Choosing to do fieldwork overseas, particularly in the Global South, is a challenge in itself. The researcher faces logistical complications, health and safety issues, cultural differences, language barriers, and much more. But permeating the entire fieldwork experience are a range of intermediating ethical issues. While many researchers seek to follow institutional and disciplinary guidelines on ethical research practice, the reality is that each situation is unique and the individual researcher must negotiate their own path through a variety of ethical challenges and dilemmas. This book was
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Rethinking ethics in field research: integral, individual, and shared; Part I Ethical challenges in the field; 2 When does 'fieldwork' begin? Negotiating pre-field ethical challenges; 3 'I always carried a machete when travelling on the bus': ethical considerations when conducting fieldwork in dangerous places; 4 Controversial, corrupt and illegal: ethical implications of investigating difficult topics
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Finding fluency in the field: ethical challenges of conducting research in another language6 Whose voice? Ethics and dynamics of working with interpreters and research assistants; 7 Doing it together: ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork; Part II Ethical dimensions of researcher identity; 8 Revealing and concealing: ethical dilemmas of maneuvering identity in the field; 9 First impressions count: the ethics of choosing to be a 'native' or a 'foreign' researcher; 10 Flirting with boundaries: ethical dilemmas of performing gender and sexuality in the field
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Family connections: ethical implications of involving relatives in field researchPart III Ethical issues relating to research methods; 12 Fellow traveller or viper in the nest? Negotiating ethics in ethnographic research; 13 Unsettling the ethical interviewer: emotions, personality, and the interview; 14 Whose knowledge, whose benefit? Ethical challenges of participatory mapping; 15 Seeing both sides: ethical dilemmas of conducting gender-sensitive fieldwork; Part IVEthical dilemmas of engagement
Description / Table of Contents:
16 'You can be jailed here by even me talking to you': dilemmas and difficulties relating to informed consent, confidentiality and anonymity17 Giving the vulnerable a voice: ethical considerations when conducting research with children and young people; 18 Power play: ethical dilemmas of dealing with local officials and politicians; 19 Exercising my rights: ethical choices and moral predicaments in accessing government documents; 20 Restaurants and renqing: ethical challenges of interviewing business people over dinner
Description / Table of Contents:
21 Can you please all of the people some of the time? Ethical challenges in making research relevant to academia, policy and practice22 'So what kind of student are you?' The ethics of 'giving back' to research participants; 23 Afterword; Glossary; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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