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Understanding Global Development Research

Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections

Nicholas Loubere editor Gordon Crawford editor Rosemary morgan editor Lena J Jaspersen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd

Published:9th Feb '17

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For experienced and inexperienced researchers and practitioners alike, this engaging book opens up new perspectives on conducting fieldwork in the Global South. 

Following an inter-disciplinary and inter-generational approach, Understanding Global Development brings into dialogue reflections on fieldwork experiences by leading scholars along with accounts from early career researchers. Contributions are organised around six key issues: 

  • Meaningful participation in fieldwork
  • Working in dangerous environments
  • Gendered experiences of fieldwork
  • Researching elites
  • Conducting fieldwork with marginalised people
  • Fieldwork in development practice. 

The experience-led discussion of each of the topics conveys a sense of what it actually feels like to be out in the field and provides readers with useful insights and practical advice. A relational framework highlights issues relating to power, identity and ethics in development fieldwork, and encourages reflection on how researcher engagement with the field shapes our understanding of global development. 

A must read for all students, researchers and aid workers contemplating field work in emerging economies.
-- Admos Chimhowu
This is an up-to-date, thought-provoking and well-balanced publication that brings together the best insights of leading and young scholars at the nexus of development and participatory field research. Its relational, ethics- and power-sensitive perspective makes this book special. -- Michael Schönhuth

ISBN: 9781473906662

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 650g

288 pages