Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence : : Fieldwork Interrupted / / ed. by Althea-Maria Rivas, Brendan Ciarán Browne.

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices. It highl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the editors and contributors
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Violence
  • Conducting unleashing interviews where control means life or death
  • Qualitative research in the shadow of violent conflict
  • Vignette 1: The play I could not publish
  • Uncertainty
  • Ambivalent reflections on violence and peacebuilding: Activist research in Croatia and the wider post-Yugoslav space
  • Intervention, autonomy and power in polarised societies
  • Vignette 2: Packing for Kabul
  • Identity and power
  • Formidable fieldwork: Experiences of a lesbian researcher in post-conflict Northern Ireland
  • Insider-outsider reflections on terrorism research in the coastal region of Kenya
  • Vignette 3: Thinking about race and gender in conflict research
  • Technology and social media
  • Bodies of cyberwar: Violence and knowledge beyond corporeality
  • Fields of insecurity: Responding to flows of information
  • Vignette 4: Visual ethnographic encounters and silence in post-conflict Banda Aceh
  • Methods
  • Writing the wrongs: Keeping diaries and reflective practice
  • Abetting atrocities? Reporting the perspectives of perpetrators in research on violence
  • Empathy as a critical methodological tool in peace research
  • Vignette 5: The limits of a part-time political ethnographer
  • Index