Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted

Published by Policy Press 2018

Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence

Fieldwork Interrupted

Edited by: Althea-Maria Rivas and Brendan Ciarán Browne

https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447337706

Overview
Contents

About this book

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices. It highlights the researchers’ own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of conflict research that goes beyond the ‘messiness’ inherent in the process of research in and on violence. It addresses the uncomfortable spaces of conflict research, the potential for violence of research itself and the need for deeper reflection on these issues. This powerful book opens up spaces for new conversations about the realities of conflict research. These critical self-reflections and honest accounts provide important insights for any scholar or practitioner working in similar environments.

Topics

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Notes on the editors and contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Foreword Robin Luckham Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Althea-Maria Rivas and Brendan Ciarán Browne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Violence
Conducting unleashing interviews where control means life or death Rose Løvgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Qualitative research in the shadow of violent conflict Patrick James Christian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Vignette 1: The play I could not publish Laurel Borisenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Uncertainty
Ambivalent reflections on violence and peacebuilding: Activist research in Croatia and the wider post-Yugoslav space Paul Stubbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Intervention, autonomy and power in polarised societies Corinna Jentzsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Vignette 2: Packing for Kabul Henri Myrttinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Identity and power
Formidable fieldwork: Experiences of a lesbian researcher in post-conflict Northern Ireland Sandra M. McEvoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Insider-outsider reflections on terrorism research in the coastal region of Kenya Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Vignette 3: Thinking about race and gender in conflict research Althea-Maria Rivas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Technology and social media
Bodies of cyberwar: Violence and knowledge beyond corporeality Fabio Cristiano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Fields of insecurity: Responding to flows of information Meike de Goede and Inge Ligtvoet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Vignette 4: Visual ethnographic encounters and silence in post-conflict Banda Aceh Marjaana Jauhola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Methods
Writing the wrongs: Keeping diaries and reflective practice Brendan Ciarán Browne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Abetting atrocities? Reporting the perspectives of perpetrators in research on violence Michael Broache Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Empathy as a critical methodological tool in peace research Sinéad Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Vignette 5: The limits of a part-time political ethnographer John Heathershaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

Language: English
Publisher: Policy Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 1 Black and White

eBook

Published: January 17, 2018
ISBN: 9781447337706