Fieldwork in Difficult Environments: Methodology as Boundary Work in Development Research

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· ZEF development studies Book 7 · LIT Verlag Münster
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About this ebook

This book contains personal accounts of PhD researchers on doing field research in politically and otherwise difficult environments. The methodological flexibility required in development research is discussed around four themes: cultural difference; methodological style and the scale level; communication and interaction; and political and ethical legitimacy. The volume argues that the choice and deployment of methodology is an ongoing, reflexive process of "boundary work".

About the author

Caleb R.L. Wall is a freelance consultant who currently works in Kazakhstan, Russia. Peter P. Mollinga is senior researcher at the Centre for Development Studies, Bonn, Germany since 2004.

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