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This volume is a collation of postgraduate fieldwork experiences in social research that provides a platform for early career researchers (ECRs) to be open about the hidden labour of doing postgraduate fieldwork. This book documents diverse fieldwork experiences, gathering critical reflections on 'the field' from a wide range of ECRs. The issues presented here go from the process of identifying the field to navigating life in (and after) it, including things that happen in-between.
This text shows a different set of methodological considerations in relation to access, ethics, identity, positionality, power and practices, highlighting how ECRs' fieldwork experiences may help broaden traditional frameworks of research. Exploring how postgraduate researchers make sense of these issues and what kind of decisions they make in specific circumstances helps to reveal broader concerns, institutional practices and constraints. Through these reflections, this book makes an important point that there is a need for researchers to document the 'real story' behind fieldwork. The honesty and openness of contributors in this volume are positive steps towards fostering a research culture where reflections upon weaknesses and failures are as welcome as presentations of successful fieldwork techniques and methods.
The fact that this book is written and edited by ECRs, the topics it presents - both emerging and long-debated but still relevant - and the broad range of approaches make this text unique. We hope these points will make this work useful for researchers of all levels and across disciplines, and that this text will allow the reader to rethink some essential aspects of social research that are often taken for granted. We expect the diverse reflections offered in this book to appeal to researchers across disciplines at different stages of their career and that this will be a useful resource for researchers to map and navigate their own research pathways.
Yim Ming Connie Kwong is currently a postdoctoral fellow of a BMBF-funded interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project at Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Germany. She is also a Member of the GCRF-funded Silk Route Cultural Heritage
Diego Astorga de Ita obtained his BSc in Environmental Science and MSc in Biology from the Institute for Ecosystems and Sustainability Research (IIES) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has conducted research with Yucatec Maya peasant farmers looking at beekeeping within Maya landscapes and Maya culture. He has also researched traditional production systems in Oaxaca with the Centre of Studies for Change within the Mexican Countryside (CECCAM A.C.); a not-for-profit organisation that works with rural workers, responding to specific problems of these communities and trying to generate knowledge and change alongside farmers and producers. Diego is currently pursuing a PhD in Human Geography at Durham University funded by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Throughout his doctoral studies Diego has also been a recipient of complementary scholarships from the Mexican Department of Public Education (SEP), Durham University's Ustinov College, and Ustinov College's Global Citizenship Programme. His current research looks at the co-production of Culture and Nature in the case of folk music in South-eastern Mexico and the historic landscapes of the region. Diego's fieldwork in this project has entailed living in Mexico for several months interviewing, playing with, and learning from traditional musicians and dancers in a politically complex part of the country. Besides this, throughout his academic career Diego has conducted fieldwork in several other places in Mexico, as well as in parts of Peru, France, and the USA.
- 2021, 1st ed. 2021, 172 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Mildred Oiza Ajebon, Yim Ming Connie Kwong, Diego Astorga De Ita
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- ISBN-10: 3030681130
- ISBN-13: 9783030681135
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2021
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