Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts

doi:10.46692/9781529206913

Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts. Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Myanmar, inviting readers into their reflections on mistakes and hard-learned lessons. Divided into sections on issues of control and confusion, security and risk, distance and closeness and sex and sensitivity, they look at how to negotiate complex grey areas and raise important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their time on the ground.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
pp v-viii
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List of Figures
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List of Abbreviations
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Notes on Contributors
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Acknowledgements
pp xviii-xviii
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1 - Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts
pp 1-20
- By Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Morten Bøås
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Part I - Control and Confusion
pp 21-22
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2 - Shifting Identities, Policy Networks, and the Practical and Ethical Challenges of Gaining Access to the Field in Interventions
pp 23-36
- By Roland Kostić
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3 - Interpretivist Methods and Military Intervention Research: Using Interview Research to De-centre the ‘Intervener’
pp 37-48
- By Casey McNeill
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4 - The Interview as a Cultural Performance and the Value of Surrendering Control
pp 49-60
- By Markus Göransson
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5 - Unequal Research Relationships in Highly Insecure Places: Of Fear, Funds and Friendship
pp 61-72
- By Morten Bøås
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Part II - Security and Risk
pp 73-74
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6 - The Politics of Safe Research in Violent and IlliberalContexts
pp 75-92
- By Alessandra Russo, Francesco Strazzari
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7 - The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach
pp 93-112
- By John Heathershaw, Parviz Mullojonov
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8 - Challenges of Research in an Active Conflict Environment
pp 113-126
- By Boukary Sangaré, Jaimie Bleck
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9 - On Assessing Risk Assessments and Situating Security Advice: The Unsettling Quest for ‘Security Expertise’
pp 127-142
- By Judith Verweijen
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10 - Being Watched and Being Handled
pp 143-156
- By Jesse Driscoll
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Part III - Distance and Closeness
pp 157-158
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11 - Positioning in an Insecure Field: Reflections on Negotiating Identity
pp 159-170
- By Maria-Louise Clausen
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12 - A Different Form of Intervention? Revisiting the Role of Researchers in Post-war Contexts
pp 171-184
- By Daniela Lai
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13 - The Road to Darfur: Ethical and Practical Challenges of Embedded Research in Areas of Open Conflict
pp 185-198
- By Mateja Peter
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14 - Interpretation by Proxy? Interpretive Fieldwork with Local Associates in Areas of Restricted Research Access
pp 199-212
- By Katarina Kušić
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Part IV - Sex and Sensitivity
pp 213-214
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15 - Sex Workers and Sugar Babies: Empathetic Engagement with Vulnerable Sources
pp 215-228
- By Kathleen M. Jennings
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16 - Lifting the Burden? The Ethical Implications of Studying Exemplary, Not Pathological, Wartime Sexual Conduct
pp 229-242
- By Angela Muvumba Sellström
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17 - Unexpected Grey Areas, Innuendo and Webs of Complicity: Experiences of Researching Sexual Exploitation in UN Peacekeeping Missions
pp 243-256
- By Henri Myrttinen
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18 - Sexual Exploitation, Rape and Abuse as a Narrative and a Strategy
pp 257-270
- By Ingunn Bjørkhaug
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19 - Ten Things to Consider Before, During and After Fieldwork in a Violent or Closed Context
pp 271-282
- By Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Morten Bøås
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Index
pp 283-289
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