Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings by Thomson, S.

Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137263742)

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Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings by Thomson, S.

Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings

$54.99
Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings by Thomson, S.

Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Academic literature rarely gives an account of the ethical and emotional challenges the researcher is confronted with before, during and after being in the field. Nonetheless, they deserve proper attention, not only to fathom the inevitable bias in researchers' position in the field and to assess the quality of the research findings, but also to show that the fa?ade of 'scientific validity and neutrality' often hides a pragmatic approach that shapes the research process. Presenting their personal accounts, a variety of researchers who have done field research in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa explore the challenges faced when engaging in local-level research in difficult situations.

Author: S. Thomson
ISBN-10: 1137263741
ISBN-13: 9781137263742
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2012
Pages: 169
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d
By S. Thomson
By S. Thomson
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SUSAN THOMSON is Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, USA. Her research and teaching interests are in state-society relations in contemporary Africa and qualitative research methods, with particular focus on research ethics and doing research in difficult environments.
AN ANSOMS is Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She conducts research on poverty and inequality in the Great Lakes Region and pays particular attention to the challenges of rural development in land-scarce post-conflict environments.
JUDE MURISON is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, Belgium. Her research focuses on human rights, transitional justice, forced migration, health and agricultural production through the interplay of national policies and laws, and how they are implemented on the ground.

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