Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare

Revisiting ‘muddy glee’

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ID8360419
AuthorsTanja Bastia (0000-0002-2025-7706, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Jessica Hope (0000-0002-8726-8880, University of St Andrews), Katy Jenkins (0000-0002-9174-3648, Northumbria University), Charlotte Lemanski (0000-0003-0982-2329, University of Cambridge), Paula Meth (0000-0002-2273-5134, University of Sheffield), Nina Moeller, Nina Isabella Moeller (0000-0002-6333-7677, Coventry University), Glyn Williams (0000-0003-0293-5574, University of Sheffield)
Year2022
Volume54
Issue4
Pages569-573
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12834
OpenAlexW4298140510
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

This commentary emerges from our collective interest in, and reflections on, the multiple ways in which parents working within Development Geography in UK academia negotiate the complexities of combining periods of overseas fieldwork with family life. Here, we bring our varied experiences of navigating these challenges (emotional, bureaucratic, and practical) into conversation with Bracken and Mawdsley's ‘Muddy glee,’ highlighting the ways in which a recognition of academics', especially female academics', childcare responsibilities has been largely absent from discussions around conducting fieldwork, specifically development fieldwork in the global South

Bureaucracy · Conversation · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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