"Co-producing research in the "Red Zone
Adaptation to fieldwork constraints with a transdisciplinary approach
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Fieldwork rarely goes to plan. In geography, anthropology, earth sciences and other research activities that rely on field data, trade-offs are required between planning and execution. This article addresses the adaptation of research projects to changing fieldwork conditions. It is based on a case study of interdisciplinary and international "Coupled Human and Natural Systems" research situated in the Far North of Cameroon. The research project underwent drastic changes because of escalating insecurity in the field site, caused by Boko Haram, a terrorist group active in north-east Nigeria and neighbouring regions. We use network analysis to show that our research team became larger, more connected and less clustered to accommodate for the changes in fieldwork accessibility. This process of adaptation led our research team towards tighter interdisciplinary collaboration, the co-production of research between academic scientists with little or no local field experience and non-academic practitioners with field knowledge, and a better dissemination of research outcomes through stronger partnerships with local organisations - overall, an increasingly transdisciplinary research pathway. Based on this case study, we discuss features of adaptive research projects facing high-uncertainty field conditions, which is an increasingly relevant issue for many researchers, for example those working in parts of the Sahel or Middle East
Adaptation (eye · Archaeology · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Field (mathematics · Field research · Geography · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Regional science · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Psychology · Zoonotic diseases and public health
Boko Haram and politics
Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Fieldwork Under FireContemporary Studies of Violence and Culture
The interplay of top-down planning and adaptive self-organization in an African floodplain
The African Sahel 25 years after the great drought
Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability
Ethical predicaments
The composite approach
Indigenous knowledges and development
Supradisciplinary research practices
Futures of Transdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinary research
What do you mean?’ The importance of language in developing interdisciplinary research
Boko Haram et le lac Tchad
Environmental Research from Here and There
Decolonising transdisciplinary research approaches
Research Note
For 'emotional fieldwork' in critical geopolitical research on violence and terrorism
Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Practice
Co-producing fieldwork under fire
Communication and sustainability science teams as complex systems
Negotiating Dangerous Fields
Fluid fields' and the dynamics of risk in social research
Ethnographic fieldwork
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| Intervalo de citações | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
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