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Understanding Global Development Research
Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections
First Edition
Edited by:
- Gordon Crawford - Coventry University, UK
- Lena Kruckenberg - University of Leeds, UK
- Nicholas Loubere - Lund University, Sweden
- Rosemary Morgan - Johns Hopkins University, USA
April 2017 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
For experienced and inexperienced researchers and practitioners alike, this engaging text opens up new perspectives on conducting fieldwork in the Global South.
Following an interdisciplinary and intergenerational 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:
Following an interdisciplinary and intergenerational 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 marginalized people
- Fieldwork in development practice
Gordon Crawford, Lena J. Kruckenberg, Nicholas Loubere and Rosemary Morgan
Chapter 1: Global Development Fieldwork: A Relational Perspective
Section I: Encountering the Field
Robert Chambers and Nicholas Loubere
Chapter 2: Liberating Development Inquiry: Freedom, Openness and Participation in Fieldwork
Ashish Shah
Chapter 3: Democracy of the Ground? Encountering Elite Domination During Fieldwork
Sarah Milne
Chapter 4: Combining Participatory Tools with Ethnography in Rural Cambodia
Section II: Gender and Fieldwork
Ruth Pearson and Rosemary Morgan
Chapter 5: Gender is not a Noun, It’s an Adjective: Using Gender as a Lens within Development Research
Johanna Bergström
Chapter 6: Encounters with Diversity: Reflecting on Different Perceptions of Gender in the Field
Egle Cesnulyte
Chapter 7: Gendered Agency in Constrained Circumstances: Researching Women Selling Sex in Kenya
Section III: Fieldwork at the Margins
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Lena J. Kruckenberg
Chapter 8: On the Margins of World Society: Working with Impoverished, Excluded and Marginalised People
Swetha Rao Dhananka
Chapter 9: Encounters at the Margins: Situating the Researcher Under Conditions of Aid
Lorenza B. Fontana
Chapter 10: Marginalisation(s) at the Margins: Studying Identity, Ethnicity and Conflict in Rural Bolivia
Section IV: Engaging with ‘Elite’ Actors
Jean Grugel and Rosemary Morgan
Chapter 11: Encounters with the Powerful: Researching Elites
John Osburg
Chapter 12: The Ups and Downs of ‘Studying Up’: Researching Elites in China
Karen M. Siegel
Chapter 13: The Nature of Power in Elite Interviews: Researching Environmental Politics in the Southern Cone of South America
Section V: Danger in the Field
Jenny Pearce and Nicholas Loubere
Chapter 14: Under Threat: Working in Dangerous Environments
Scott Naysmith
Chapter 15: Perceiving Threats to Health in the Field: Researching Zoonotic Diseases at the Human-Animal Interface
Nelly Ali
Chapter 16: Children in the Streets: Activism and Representation in Dangerous Fields
Section VI: Development in Theory and Practice
David Mosse and Lena J. Kruckenberg
Chapter 17: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Researching Development Practice
Kathy Dodworth
Chapter 18: Multipositionality in the ‘Field’
Lata Narayanaswamy
Chapter 19: Irrelevance Dressed as Success?: Dis-spirited Reflections on Knowledge-based Development
Gordon Crawford, Lena J. Kruckenberg, Nicholas Loubere and Rosemary Morgan
Chapter 20: Towards a Relational Understanding of Development Research
A must read for all students, researchers and aid workers contemplating field work in emerging economies.
School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester
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.
Chair of Anthropology, University of Trier
Sample Materials & Chapters
Crawford et al - Understanding Global Development Research - Introduction
