Full Description
The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.
It examines the effects that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed. By weaving together experiences from a variety of countries and across disciplinary boundaries and research methods, the volume outlines the roots of over-research, where it comes from and what can be done about it.
The book will be useful for social science students and researchers working in ethnographic disciplines such as Human Geography, Anthropology, Urban Planning, and Sociology and seeking to navigate the tricky 'absent present' of already existing research on their fields of exploration.
Contents
Introduction: Over-research: what, why, when, where, how? 1. Towards a theory of over-researched places 2. Overcoming over-research? Reflections from Sydney's 'Petri dish' 3. Epistemological, decolonial, and critical reflections in constructing research in former Yugoslavia 4. Ghosts of researchers past, present, and future in Mumbai 5. La Duchère, Lyon, France: an over-researched place that ignores itself 6. 'Research has killed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict': navigating the over-researched field of the West Bank 7. Overlooked cities and under researched Bharatpur, Nepal 8. When over-researchedness is invisibilised in bibliographic databases: insights from a case study about the Arctic region 9. Confessions of an 'academic tourist': reflections on accessibility, trust, and research ethics in the 'Grandhotel Cosmopolis' 10. Locating climate change research: the privileges and pitfalls of choosing over- and under-researched places
