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 IV - Sex and Sensitivity
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
Research on wartime and intervention-related sexual violence has become an important subfield of conflict and intervention studies, which in addition to the other challenges discussed in this book needs a specific research sensitivity as it often takes place among particularly marginalized or vulnerable research participants. The contributions to this part of the book critically discuss issues such as victimhood and agency, critiquing parts of the stereotyping in the current womenand-war discourse without losing sight of the human suffering that sexual violence affects, and also accounting for fragile masculinities and the precarious lives of young men (combatants and non-combatants). The authors address questions of how to manage research among sex workers and people who occasionally use sex as a transactional field of body politics, and how to deal with actions and issues such as sexual exploitation and abuse, which may be hard to accept but still need to be dealt with, while treating those involved with a clear sense of humanity. The research underpinning the chapters was carried out among sex workers who are part of the wider peacekeeping economies in Liberia, Haiti and the DR Congo, with rebel armies in Burundi, South Africa and Uganda, among different peacekeeping missions around the globe including Cambodia, Timor-Leste, the Central African Republic, Haiti and Kosovo, and in a refugee camp in Uganda.
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- Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International InterventionA Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts, pp. 213 - 214Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2020