The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

ISBN-13: 9783031136146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 439 str.

Nasir Uddin; Alak Paul

Opis

This handbook offers epistemologically and ontologically important personal accounts of academic and professional researchers having long-term intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldwork in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe. The accounts are cross-disciplinary including anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, gender studies, forestry and environmental studies, economics, and international relations. They are also trans-regional, covering the globe including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. The book offers a comprehensive portrait of multifaceted challenges that social researchers experience while doing fieldwork in various social settings. The accounts provide both challenges of doing fieldwork in the 21st century and the ways how to address/redress them in the field by complying with the codes of ethics, and the politics of fieldwork. Readers will benefit from the handbook by understanding methodological issues from both disciplinary relevance and regional specificity across time and spaces.

Spis treści

Introduction

 

1.     Methodological issues in social research: Experience from the 21^st century

Nasir Uddin

Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

 

Part-One: Fieldwork in Challenging Social Settings

 

2.     An active partner in disgraceful context: research, surveillance and risk in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Maggie O’Brien

Department of Law, University of Warwick, UK

 

3.     Researching Garo Death Rites (reprint with revision)

Erik De Maaker

Department of Anthropology, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands

 

4.     Negotiating the tyrannies of fieldwork in Africa: A Nigerian experience

Adebayo Adewusi

Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

 

5.     Trial by fire: Reflections on fieldwork in Nagaland, Northeast India

Debojyoti Das

Department of Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK

 

Part-Two: Field, Relations, and Emotion

 

6.     Encounters in the field: The influence of emotions on data

Anuradha Sen Mookerjee

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

 

7.   Developing relationships over many years: Under investigated but important types of qualitative Research

Ian G. Baird

Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

 

8.     Sick in the Field: Illness and inter-being encounters in anthropological fieldwork

Olea Morris

Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Hungary

Part-Three: Bio-Ethics, Fieldwork Practices, and Ground Reality

 

9.     At the organ bazaar of Bangladesh: In search of kidney sellers (reprint with revision)

Monir Moniruzzaman

Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, USA

 

10.  “Can we talk about surrogacy?” Legal precariousness and the perils of qualitative research in the biomedical Context

Pragna Paramita Mondal

Narajole Raj College, West Bengal, India & Women’s Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta

 

11.     Qualitative ‘fieldwork’ in health geographic research: self-reports from Bangladesh

Alak Paul

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

 

12.  Adolescent drug abuse in Connecticut private high schools: Zero tolerance, contextual peer Influence, and deterrence effectiveness.

Minjune Song

Independent scholar living in Connecticut, USA

 

13.     Researchers’ dilemmas and challenges in qualitative fieldwork with climate-vulnerable communities

Masud-Al-Kamal, S. M. Monirul Hassan

Department of Sociology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh &

Nasir Uddin, Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

 

Part-Four: Gendered Fieldwork and Gender in Social Research

 

14.     Risks and challenges in fieldwork on gender-based violence: Identity, social taboo and culture

Nahid Rezwana,

Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

15.  Rethinking ethnographic research as ‘gendered and en-casted labour’: Reflections from researching caste and partition-induced forced-migration in a non-metropolitan city of West Bengal

Ekata Bakshi

The Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

 

16.     Photovoice as a method for women’s empowerment in domestic violence: a reflexive account

Zuriatunfadzliah Sahdan

Department of Geography and Environment, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia

 

17.     Working with opposite gender: Experience of doing fieldwork among rural women in Bangladesh

Main Uddin

Department of Anthropology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Part-Five: Theoretical and Epistemic Challenges in the Field

 

18.     Between an activist and academic: Contested (re)positioning in refugee research

Nasir Uddin

Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

 

19.     Moving research methods to the field: Challenges and Lessons learned across African contexts

Deo-Gracias HOUNDOLO

International Institute of Social Studies-Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

 

20.     Entry, access, bans and returns: Reflections on positionality in field research on Central Asia’s ethnic minorities

        Matteo Fumagalli, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK.

21.    Doing ethnography on sexuality among Young Men in Dhaka, Bangladesh: How Has Reflexivity  

  Helped?

Sayed Md Saikh Imtiaz

Department of Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Part-Six: Nativity, participants selection and challenges in archival research

 

22.  A native anthropologist’s positionality of being insider/outsider: A reflective account of doing ethnographic research in Nepal

Kapil Dahal

Department of Anthropology, The Central Tribhuvan University, Nepal

 

23.     Recruitment of participants from vulnerable groups for social research: Challenges  

       and solutions

Melati Nungsari

Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston, USA.

 

24.    Navigating Archival Readings of Rural Technology

        Sanjukta Ghosh

        South Asia Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

 

 

Conclusion

 

25.     Challenges of social research: Way forward

Alak Paul

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

O autorze

Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. He is the author of The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life (2020) and Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and ‘Subhuman’ Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Alak Paul is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, at the University of Chittagong. He is the co-editor of Geography in Bangladesh: Concepts Methods and Applications (2019) and the author of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Stigmatized People, Policy and Place (2020).

Blurb

The handbook offers epistemologically and ontologically important personal accounts of academic and professional researchers having long-term intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldwork in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe. The accounts are cross-disciplinary including anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, gender studies, forestry & environmental studies, economics, and international relations. These are also trans-regional covering the globe including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. The book offers a comprehensive portrait of multifaceted challenges that social researchers experience while doing fieldwork in various social settings. The accounts provide both challenges of doing fieldwork in the 21st century and the ways how to address/redress them in the field by complying with the codes of ethics, and the politics of fieldwork. Readers could enormously benefit from the handbook by understanding methodological issues from both disciplinary relevance and regional specificity across time and spaces.

Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. He is the author of The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life (2020) and Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and ‘Subhuman’ Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Alak Paul is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, at the University of Chittagong. He is the co-editor of Geography in Bangladesh: Concepts Methods and Applications (2019) and the author of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Stigmatized People, Policy and Place (2020).