Fieldwork as Social Transformation

Place, Time, and Power in a Violent Moment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3948818
AutoresNoelle K Brigden (0000-0002-2317-2935, Marquette University, autor correspondente), Noelle Brigden (Political Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA), Miranda Cady Hallett (University of Dayton), Miranda Hallett (Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences, Dayton, USA)
Ano2021
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas1-17
Data de publicação2021-01-05
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2020.1717068
OpenAlexW3004599249
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas42

This special issue addresses the urgent need for reflexive introspection about conducting research in violent contexts. To do so, it explores two interrelated dimensions of the places where researchers conduct fieldwork: 1) temporality; and 2) power. In the current political moment, fully engaging with these dimensions of field sites has become an ethical and security imperative, as well as a methodological imperative. Once we put these two dimensions at the centre of analysis, the need to re-conceptualize fieldwork beyond the binaries of here/there and insider/outsider also becomes apparent. Thus, this special issue approaches fieldwork, not only as a means to a research end, but instead, as an opportunity for social action in itself. From a variety of methodological and epistemological positions, the contributors to this issue build on recent feminist work that explores fieldwork’s geopolitical dimensions. Collectively, these interdisciplinary essays argue in favour of reimagining fieldwork as an imaginative and transformative act

Epistemology · Geopolitics · Governmentality · Insider · Introspection · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Transformative learning · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics