Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Susan Thomson

Field Research in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

The Ethics of Researcher Vulnerabilities
Redaktion: Ansoms, An

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An essential exploration of and guide to research ethics in the field.



Researchers working in Africa are engaged in ethical, methodological, logistical, emotional and professional compromises. Juggling the demands of being a researcher and being human, scholars must balance the recording of data withthe emotional demands of listening, of analyzing and reporting personal, and often contradictory, narratives. This book recognizes these challenges and lays bare the underlying and important process by which the researcher grapples with emotions, and how 'feelings' inform and shape data collection, interpretation, write-up and dissemination. Based on widely researched on-the-ground work, the contributors reveal the ambiguities and inconsistences that emerge at all stages of fieldwork and how to tackle them. They examine the ethical quagmires that arise when doing research on sensitive topics in a researcher's own living environment, and suggest how to manage the complex interaction between the researcher's own identity and social relationships in the field, and navigate the role of researcher when activism risks access to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800101579
• Artikelnr.: 62147157

Autorenporträt

An Ansoms, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Susan Thomson

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: It is about Us - Elísio Macamo Map of Africa showing Fields of
Research Introduction: Fields of Vision, Emotion as Reflexivity - Susan
Thomson, An Ansoms, and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 1. Skin Connections:
Negotiating Institutional Ethics alongside Insider Identities - Gino
Vlavonou 2. Conducting Sensitive Research 'At Home': A Matter of
Responsibility - Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga 3. A Gendered Research Journey:
Ethical Dilemmas of an Algerian Immigrant Recovering the Memory of 'Home' -
Ghaliya N. Djelloul 4. Establishing Kinship in Diaspora: Conducting
Research among Fellow Congolese Immigrants of Cape Town - Rosette Sifa
Vuninga 5. 'If they find out, we're dead': Intermediaries, Self-censorship,
and Anxiety in Research as an Outsider-insider - Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 6.
Looking Behind the Screen: Ethical Quagmires when Accessing Hidden
Discourses - An Ansoms 7. Scholar-Activist? On Relational Accountability
and an Ethic of Dissemination - Susan Thomson Conclusion: Theorizing Self
as Ethical Research Practice - Susan Thomson, An Ansoms and Aymar Nyenyezi
Bisoka Bibliography