Full Description
Using rich insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention, this much-needed book provides essential practical guidance and key reflections for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts. Contributors provide explicit discussion of their mistakes and hard-learned lessons, raising important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their research.
Contents
PART 1: CONTROL AND CONFUSION;
The interview as a cultural performance and the value of surrendering control ‾ Markus Göransson;
Interpretivist methods and military intervention research: using interview research to de-centre the 'intervener' ‾ Casey McNeill;
Shifting identities, policy networks, and the ethical and practical challenges of gaining access to the field in interventions ‾ Roland Kosti?;
Being watched and being handled ‾ Jesse Driscoll;
Unequal research relationships in highly insecure places: of fear, funds and friendship ‾ Morten Bøås;
PART 2: SECURITY AND RISK;
The politics of safe research in violent and illiberal contexts ‾ Francesco Strazzari and Alessandra Russo;
Challenges of research in an active conflict environment ‾ Boukary Sangaré and Jamie Bleck;
The politics and ethics of fieldwork in post-conflict environments: the dilemmas of a vocational approach ‾ John Heathershaw and Parviz Mullojonov;
On assessing risk assessments and situating security advice: the unsettling quest for 'security expertise' ‾ Judith Verweijen;
PART 3: DISTANCE AND CLOSENESS;
Positioning in an insecure field: reflections on negotiating identity ‾ Maria-Louise Clausen;
A different form of intervention? Revisiting the role of researchers in post-war contexts ‾ Daniela Lai;
The road to Darfur: Ethical and practical challenges of embedded research in areas of open conflict ‾ Mateja Peter;
Interpretation by proxy? Interpretive fieldwork with local associates in areas of restricted research access ‾ Katarina Kuši?;
PART 4: SEX AND SENSITIVITY;
Sex workers and sugar babies: empathetic engagement with vulnerable sources ‾ Kathleen Jennings;
Lifting the burden? The ethical implications of studying exemplary, not pathological, wartime sexual conduct ‾ Angela Muvumba Sellström;
Unexpected grey areas, innuendo and webs of complicity: experiences of researching sexual exploitation in UN peacekeeping missions ‾ Henri Myrtinnen;
Sexual exploitation, rape and abuse as a narrative and a strategy ‾ Ingunn Bjørkhaug;
CONCLUSIONS;
Lessons for intervention fieldwork in violent and closed contacts ‾ Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Morten Bøås.
