Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts
- Part I Control and Confusion
- Part II Security and Risk
- Part III Distance and Closeness
- Part IV Sex and Sensitivity
- Index
Part II - Security and Risk
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts
- Part I Control and Confusion
- Part II Security and Risk
- Part III Distance and Closeness
- Part IV Sex and Sensitivity
- Index
Summary
Developments in ethics procedures, risk assessment, insurance regulations and legal frameworks (such as counter-terrorism legislation) have drawn attention to the security-and risk-related aspects of fieldwork-based research in violent and closed contexts— and they have affected intervention researchers’ access to ‘the field’ and to data/information. In addition, the characteristics of the field itself, which may be controlled by authoritarian states or violent groups, who target researchers, research participants or both, have contributed to a shrinking of space for fieldwork-based research. The authors in this part of the book discuss practical issues emanating from this situation, ranging from how to approach research ethics in a less procedural– bureaucratic and more vocational– practical and context-specific way, to how researchers deal with questions of their own safety and that of their national collaborators and research participants and informants, to the effects that the alleged ‘duty of care’ of Western research institutions for their employees has on academic knowledge production about international intervention. The research underpinning the reflections in this part was conducted across a range of institutional research boards and research ethics committees in Europe, as an international– national research collaboration in Tajikistan, among communities in central and northern Mali, with armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and under close surveillance by state security agencies in the south Caucasus and Central Asia.
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- Chapter
- Information
- Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International InterventionA Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts, pp. 73 - 74Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2020